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SharePoint Online list with 1 day retention policy still showing 3 days of items
Hi rhiheu,
Perhaps it happens because the Policy is not determined for the Site Collection as it said https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-policies-sharepoint?view=o365-worldwide: '...A retention policy is applied at the level of a site collection. When you include a SharePoint site collection or OneDrive account in a retention policy, a Preservation Hold library is created, if one doesn't exist. You can view this library on the Site contents page in the top-level site of the site collection. Most users can't view the Preservation Hold library because it's visible only to site collection administrators...'.
Cheers,
Oleg.
- rhiheuJun 16, 2020Copper Contributor
Hi olegmelnikov, thanks for your reply. Since it's possible to also set retention policies at a list/content-type level, I'm not quite understanding where that article provides an answer to my issue sorry.
- Jun 16, 2020
Hi rhiheu - this article may help. Looks like the policy needs to be set at the Site Collection level first, and then to the Content Type. https://sharepointmaven.com/set-retention-deletion-policies-files-folders-sharepoint/ Hope that helps.