Since document sets are based on folders you cannot declare an entire Document Set as a record. You can however send it to the Records Centre to then have it declared. This is a little annoying for end users since they have two ways of declaring records.
2) Cannot nest Document Sets within Document Sets
No nesting of Document Sets is possible through the SharePoint UI. Therefore you can only have a single level of Document Sets available. It’s not necessarily a bad thing (otherwise most people would simply use Document Sets as folders and nest the things) but it’s well worth considering.
3) You cannot send a Document Set larger than 50MB using the Send To Command
If you use the send to feature with a Document Set, the sum for all documents in a Document Set cannot be larger than 50MB. This can be a major pain if you have a large Document Set and want to route it to a Records Center, it won’t work.
Note: Can anyone confirm that this has been fixed in SP1 or a CU? Rumor is that the June CU lifted this to 250MB.
4) Cannot create folders within Document Sets
You cannot create a Folder within a Document Set from the Web UI. However you can open up the Document Set in Explorer view and dump a folder in that way. Don’t do that, it is not supposed and likely will not work as you think it should.
5) Document Set routing requires time jobs to run
When using Document Set routing, Document Sets that are sent to a content organizer will remain in the drop-off library and be moved to the appropriate location by the content organizer processing timer job, which by default runs daily.
6) Routing Content into Document Sets can be tricky
A common practice is to set up a series of Document Sets and then use the Content Organizer to route content into them. This is possible, however there is a bit of configuration that is required.
7) Document Sets are available in SharePoint Server only
Document Sets are only available in SharePoint 2010 Server and are not part of the SharePoint Foundation 2010. This also means that the programing object model (SPFolder) is part of the SharePoint 2010 Server API and not available in the SharePoint Foundation Object Model. Sorry all those users of SharePoint Foundation.
8 ) Cannot create Document Sets in Lists
They are called Document Sets after all but you cant create Document Sets on lists, only libraries. It also seems that you can’t create Document Sets in the default pages library as well with pure configuration.
9) Be Careful of performance with lots of Document Sets
There is no limit on the number of documents that can exist in a Document Set. However, display load times may be limited by the list view threshold which by default is set at 5,000 items and the aforementioned lack of metadata navigation
In general, beware when you create and use very large Document Sets (thousands of items), as the limitation and performance factor of viewing and displaying the list will be a factor.
10) Downloading the entire Document Set
If you remember this feature was available in the SP2010 Beta but it didn’t make it into the actual release. It’s not a major issue though as Microsoft is happy enough to provide you with the source code on how to do this here.
11) Shared Columns may not update instantaneously
When using shared columns, if there are more than 10 items in a Document Set, metadata updates will be run by a timer job every 15 minutes. So never fear if it isn’t updated straight away. Incidentally the Timer Job is called ‘Document Set fields synchronization job’
12) Be careful with Content Type Syndication
Content Type syndication of document sets is supported, but if the destination site collection does not have the Document Sets feature enabled, then you risk a dependency issue. Fortunately content type publishing provides a warning for this situation.
Also be aware that not only will the Document Set be published out to the Site Collection but so will all of the Content Types that are attached to the Document Sets
That is all that I have been able to come up with. Would love some input again like the last two limitations articles so fire away
Some great work by others!
PS: This text is part of a post from this page.
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