How to Set Up Document Sets in SharePoint 2010

In this article I am showing how to enable Document set for your SharePoint 2010 Document library. Documents can be organized into document sets with SharePoint 2010. It is an added feature in SharePoint 2010, the document sets are an advanced form of folders. But they have some more features. Below are the some of the features of document set.

1. Document sets can share the same metadata.
2. Versioning the document set instead of the separated documents.
3. Initiate workflows for the whole document set.
4. Document set level permission management.
5. Customizable Welcome Page for all document set.

Below are the steps to activate the Document set

1. Go to the Manage Site Collection Features page and activate the Document Sets feature.


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3. Go to the Document Library's setting page and choose Advanced Settings. Turn on the allowing of content management.



4. Add the Document Set content type to your library.