With a SharePoint 2010 Publishing site, I was investigating to see if I could have a bunch of pages treated as a single unit – ie. Page-A, Page-B, Page-C and Page-D about a certain product.
That way, I could have the advantages of documents sets like a shared ‘versioning’ and ‘workflows’ and ‘permissions’ – they’re essentially just a new Content Type with some smarts included.
So – I tried the following steps – as would do with other document libraries :
- Activate the Site Collection feature for Document Sets (within Site Settings > Site Collection Features)
- Change to the Pages Library – and add the content type
- Within the Pages library – change to the “Library” tab
- Click “Library Settings” – and then “Advanced settings”
- Tick the box to “Allow management of content types
- Click “Add from existing site content types” – to choose the content type
- Change the dropdown to be “Document Set Content Types” – and click ADD – then OK
OK – so it looks like it’s alright, eh ?
And – when switching back to the Pages library – I can create a NEW item of Document Set type :
BUT – I then got an “Unhandled Exception” !!
I checked the server log (Event Viewer) – and noted that there WAS an exception :
Exception information:
Exception type: SPException
Exception message: Document Sets cannot be created in the Pages Library.
DOH !!
Yes – I know that a Page is not really a “Document” – but everything is a “ListItem”, right ? So I thought it might work.
And – I think that SharePoint should have captured the SPException – not been ‘unhandled’.
Oh well – might have to find another to treat “many pages” as a single unit – perhaps a Site Workflow – and manage it that way ?! Let me know if you have any ideas or discover an answer.
🙂
Some good news is that you CAN use Document Sets for Document Libraries within a SharePoint Publishing Site – so that a group of PDF’s (for example) can undergo the same grouping & functionality/features.
Just NOT for the Page Library itself.
