Why?
Because the Document Set is a special type of content type, it obviously gets a special type of treatment: even in making at available 😉.
What?
This post will explain how you can make the Document Set available in your SharePoint Site.
How?
The first way is to enable it by going to the SharePoint Site Collection Features in the root site.
1) Navigate to the Site collection features of the highest level site of your Site collection. Usually it can be done by using the Gear-icon on the top right ➡ Site settings ➡ Site collection features. However someone appearantly thought the Modern site experience should be different and then it could be the Gear-icon on the top right ➡ Site contents ➡ Settings ➡ Site collection features. My tip is to paste this text behind your Site URL: /_layouts/15/ManageFeatures.aspx?Scope=Site 🤓
2) On this page you can find all Site collection features and the one we need to activate is Document Sets. Once activated it can be used as a Site content type in the sites of this site collection. I recommend to create Child content types of this default content type so you are prepared for a variaty of document set content types.
The second way is to enable it using PowerShell. This will probably be another blog post where I’ll explain step-by-step on how to us the Enable-PnPFeature for this.
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