How do I set a retention label at the same time as creating a new driveItem?

Question

We are creating Microsoft Graph driveItems using the SDK.

We apply retention labels to the newly created driveItem - however this creates an opportunity for the driveItem to fail to be labelled for whatever reason.

What we want to know is, is it possible to set the retention label at the same time as uploading the driveItem, so its done atomically?

Answer 1

Hi catmanjan,

Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft!

Currently, the Microsoft Graph API does not support setting a retention label at the same time as uploading a driveItem automically.

Apply (set) a retention label on a driveItem (files and folders) using Graph API-

PATCH /driveitem/retentionLabel
PATCH /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/retentionLabel

Use retention labels to manage the lifecycle of documents stored in SharePoint

Hope this helps.

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