Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Document Sets Compared to Folders as Organizational Tools in Document Libraries

Document sets are a powerful tool that can be enabled for site collections that allow users to keep related documents together as a “set” to facilitate collaboration on the documents. When a user clicks a document set, such as Project X Document Set used in the examples in this section, all the files stored in the document set will be visible, as shown in Figure 20.22. In this way, document sets are similar to folders, but as explained in this section, they have a variety of differences that are important to understand from an administrative standpoint that are reviewed in this section. From a high level, folders are simpler to enable, are more limited in functionality, ...