Folder name as calculated field

Question

I've created a Library which consists of two Folder Content-types.

1. Customer
2. Prequalfication

I'm looking to create a calculated column in the Prequalfication folder content-type which fetches the 'name' column of the of the Customer folder.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You may want to take a look at Document Sets. A document set is a type of folder. A document set can have specific metadata columns. Inside a document set you can create or upload documents. The documents can inherit some or all metadata from the parent document set.

A three layer hierarchy with different sets of metadata at each tier cannot be done with SharePoint out of the Box.

SharePoint MVP Michal Pisarek has a good introduction to SharePoint 2010 Document sets

There is also this Introduction to Document Sets from Microsoft and many more resources can be found with a quick web search.