Pulling Sensitivity Labels by Columns names in OneDrive/SharePoint

Question

Hi there, we're hoping to collect sensitivity label names without the use of the extractSensitivityLabels API as it wouldn't be feasible on large environments.

As an alternative, we're attempting the following:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{site-id}/drive/list/items?expand=driveItem,fields&top=999

by expanding fields, we're capable of catching the Sensitivity Label display names here:

"fields": {
                "ContentType": "Document",
                "EditorLookupId": "52",
                "_CheckinComment": "",
                "LinkFilenameNoMenu": "ignore_me.docx",
                "LinkFilename": "ignore_me.docx",
                "DocIcon": "docx",
                "FileSizeDisplay": "34052",
                "ItemChildCount": "0",
                "FolderChildCount": "0",
                "_ComplianceFlags": "",
                "_ComplianceTag": "",
                "_ComplianceTagWrittenTime": "",
                "_ComplianceTagUserId": "",
                "_CommentCount": "",
                "_LikeCount": "",
                "_DisplayName": "Intellectual Property",
                "Edit": "0",
            }

My question is: would it be correct to expect the _DisplayName field to always represent the collection of Sensitivity Labels? The field seems to remain empty for files which do not have labels applied to them. I couldn't find documentation regarding this, so I'd appreciate any help.

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Hi @Ivan Zeljkovic ,

Thank you for posting in this community.

You're right! The field(_DisplayName) in the property of the response from the Microsoft Graph API represents the display name of the sensitivity label applied to the file. If a file doesn’t have a sensitivity label applied, the field will remain empty (as you’ve observed). Only files with an assigned sensitivity label will populate this field with the label’s display name.

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