We are using document sets in our main document library. As this is a public facing website anonymous users have read permissions to the site. Earlier we ran into the issue that anonymous users could not click on the link to a document set in a data view web part. It is because once a document set is clicked on, something happens behind the scenes and the URL is transformed into ....docsethomepage.aspx?<guids> Anonymous users do not have access to what ever is happening there and get prompted to log in. but if you take the resulting url after it has the guids attached and have an anonymous user paste it in, they can get to the page. So search results will not show document sets to anonymous users since they dont have permissions, they are trimmed out of the results.
I have confirmed this bug with Microsoft and there is a fix coming out in the future but no one knows when. Does anyone have any ideas for us? We tried changing the URL in the index(i know thats unsupported) to see if that worked and still no go.
any help would be great!