SharePoint 2010 Document Sets - different default view for documents inside

In a Document Library with document sets, it's common to have one default view for the document sets, which shows the properties of the document sets, and then have a different *default* view for the documents inside a document set, aka on the document set welcome page. To achieve this, set the default view for the document library first. This becomes the default view that shows all the document sets. Then to configure the document set default view, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Document Library settings.


2. Under content types for the library, select Document Set (or the custom Document Set content type used). This brings up the "List Content Type Information" page for the content type.


3. Select Dcoument set settings.


4. Scroll down and find "Welcome Page View" dropdown. Here you can specify the default view that the document set should use. Select the view desired and click OK.


5. GO back to the document library, now you should see that the library default view and document set default view are different.

Note that the "Welcome Page View" section is missing if you try to edit the Document Set Settings by going to the site content type (Site Settings -> Site Content Types -> Document Set -> Document Set Settings), because a view only exists in a list/library. Hence this property only exists on the content type on the library itself.