Apply a Retention Label to a Document

Modified on Sun, 5 Feb, 2023 at 9:21 PM

After importing the retention labels to the Compliance Center, they need to be published so they can be applied to documents.


Retention labels, sometimes are not available as soon as they are published, they may take 1 day to show up in the environment where they are published.


Follow the steps below to apply a published an available retention label to a document.


1.  Navigate to the site > document library when you wish to apply the retention label to documents.


The document library page is displayed.



2.  Select the document to which you want to apply the retention label.


The selected document is highlighted.


3.  Click the  icon.


The document details pane is displayed.



4.  Select the label you wantto apply from the Apply label dropdown list.



The selected label is applied to the document.



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