Need help looking up Document Set welcome page link and setting it in a feild in another list

Hi Katie,

unfortunately there is no standard property/field of the docSet that you can query to get the link to the homepage of the doc set, at least none I know about. Therefore you will need to construct this URL yourself. Fortunately you do not have to rebuild the whole URL you see in the browser when navigating to the page.

What you basically need is this:

http://[WebApp]/[Manage Path]/[SiteCollection]/[Web]/_layouts/15/DocSetHome.aspx?id=http://[WebApp]/[Managed Path]/[SiteCollection]/[Web]/[DocSet Library Name]/[DocSet Name]&DefaultItemOpen=[DocSet ID]

This may look like a lot of work but it's rather simple to build. You can use a "Build string" action inside your workflow to build up this URL.

As you can see I'm heavily using the WF-Variable "WebUrl" which is always available and holds the URL of the web your workflow is running on. The "/_layouts/15/DocSetHome.aspx?id=" has to be hard coded here. Be aware that "15" is for SP 2013. If you have another SP Version you may need to change the hive number. Afterwards we use the "WebUrl" variable again. Then we need the name of the library where the doc set is stored in. Here I just wrote in the name of the library which is "DocSets" in my case. But you may also provide another variable here to keep it dynamically. Same is for the name of the document set which is "DemoSet01" in my case. The part "&DefaultItemOpen=" needs to be entered manually again. At last you need to enter the ID of your document set but you are having this ID anyway from the doc set creation.

This link will then bring you to the homepage of your document set.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Philipp

Edit: I Forgot that you asked about o365. At the moment I only have access to an onPrem SharePoint and cannot test this for o365 but I hope my answer is still valid for o365 SharePoint!

Hi Philipp,

Thanks for the instruction above. I tried it but it didn't work. I looked at the URL of a doc set that is created. I can replicate the bold section below then get a little stuck when building a string. See below:

https://morriscorp.sharepoint.com/sites/speedtest/Finance-Processes/Finance%20Claims%20Register/Forms/Finance%20Claims/docsethomepage.aspx?ID=30&FolderCTID=0x0120D520004D257F8FFB44F842ADDE19B649980AC6005AD1EE6EA5B6894688D1D6090ADDA499&List=4611b638-93bb-4123-ba4e-89747b9f41cc&RootFolder=%2Fsites%2Fspeedtest%2FFinance%2DProcesses%2FFinance%20Claims%20Register%2FFIN%2D1&RecSrc=%2Fsites%2Fspeedtest%2FFinance%2DProcesses%2FFinance%20Claims%20Register%2FFIN%2D1

Thanks Kate

Hi Kate,

still can't test it myself on o365 but did you try to just use the bold section? Does it work already?

If it doesn't we can still try to create what you see in the URL. But I recommend you try to shorten this url if possible. For example the "RecSrc" part could be not necessary.

However, he we go with the parameters:

FolderCTID: Thats the GUID of the folder where the "folder" should be your document set. Since the ID of the document set content type should always remain the same (as long as you don't use your own document set content type) you can just copy this ID for your url string.

List: Thats the GUID of the list (in this case your document library) where the workflow is running on. If your workflow is only supposed to work for the lists you mentioned, you should be able to just copy this GUID as well. List GUID won't change until you re-create the list or use another one.

RootFolder/RecSrc (same value): Actually I'm not sure about this one.  You can try to use a "Query List" action on your recently created document set (filter the query list action on the docset library with your item ID) and see if you get some property that holds this value.

Maybe someone else with access to an o365 account can support us ^^

Regards

Philipp

I did try the above but it cuts the string at 250 characters. Is there a limit that you are aware of? Can’t seem to find anything on google.

I also tried just the bold section but that doesn't open the link as needed

Hi Katie,

here you find some information about URL path length restrictions in SharePoint. Article is for SharePoint 2010 but afaik this information is still valid for 2013.

Thanks I will have a read through that.

Hi Philipp, I haven't been able to figure it out and for the life of me can't get it back to the result I originally had that was linking to the display form. I have done the update list item action and set the field to the DocSetURL variable but I can't get it to display a display name (Name field) instead of the full url. Any chance you know?

Thanks, I did it using build string and update field. I had been doing that several times but with all the attempts corrupted the hyperlink field it was updating. I deleted the field and started again and it worked. Thanks for all your help.

‌ can you mark any from the questions as "Correct" if it helped you?

Regards,

Tomasz