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Sensitivity Label Templates

Sensitivity label templates are saved label configurations held in CIPP rather than in a tenant, so a label you have settled on can be deployed to any number of customers without rebuilding it each time. Templates get here in three ways: capture one from a live label with Create template based on label on the Sensitivity Labels page, author one from JSON in the deploy drawer, or import one from a community repository.

Action Buttons

Deploy Sensitivity Label

Opens a drawer that creates a sensitivity label in one or more tenants from a template or from parameters you supply yourself.

Field
Description

Select Tenants

The tenants to create the label in. At least one is required, and you can pick several to deploy the same label across a group of customers in one go.

Select a template (optional)

Picks a saved sensitivity label template. Choosing one fills Parameters (JSON) with that template's stored settings, and also loads the template's colour into Label Color.

Label Color (optional)

A colour picker for the label. It accepts any hex colour, where the Purview portal offers only its preset palette. A colour picked here overrides any colour set in the JSON below. Leave it empty to keep whatever the JSON specifies.

Parameters (JSON)

The label settings as JSON. Required. A worked example is shown in the field until you type into it, covering the display name, tooltip, content types, encryption settings, content marking and a nested PolicyParams block for the label policy that publishes it.

Browse Catalog

Opens a drawer listing the sensitivity label templates published in the community repositories you have configured, so you can bring one into CIPP.

Field
Description

Search Templates

Narrows the list by template name, category or repository.

Repository

Restricts the list to chosen repositories. Shown once you have more than one repository configured.

Category

Restricts the list to chosen categories. Shown once the available templates span more than one category.

Card and list view

Switches between template cards and a compact list.

All, Not Imported, Imported, Updates

Filters by import state. Updates narrows to templates you already imported that have since changed upstream.

Select all

Selects every template currently listed, for importing in one go.

Force re-import

Imports a template again even when CIPP already holds it, overwriting the copy you have.

Import Selected

Imports everything you have ticked.

Each template also carries its own Preview and Import buttons, and is chipped Imported or Update Available so you can see its state at a glance.

Be sure to check out Catalog for more on setting up repositories.

Table Details

Column
Description

Display Name

The label name users will see in Office apps once the template is deployed.

Name

The label's internal name in Purview.

Comment

The description saved with the template.

Content Type

What the label will be applicable to, such as files and emails.

Encryption Enabled

Whether the label will apply encryption to content it is put on.

GUID

CIPP's identifier for the template. Quote it when raising a support request about a specific template.

A template captured from a live label has its rights management template identifiers stripped, because those only mean anything in the tenant the label came from. The same applies to the parent label: CIPP stores the parent's name alongside it and matches the parent again by name in whichever tenant you deploy to.

Table Actions

Action
Description
Bulk Action Available

Save to GitHub

Publishes the selected template to a repository you have write access to, prompting for the repository and a commit message. Greyed out unless the GitHub integration is enabled.

Delete Template

Removes the selected template from CIPP. Labels already deployed from it are unaffected.

More Info

Opens the Extended Info flyout with the full details for the selected row.


Feature Requests/Ideas

We value your feedback and ideas. Please raise any feature requests on GitHub.

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