Wednesday, November 3, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Label Error: The Policy Label Configuration is Invalid

I’ve recently been working a lot around Information Management policies including Labels.  A Label Information Management policy allows you to add force Office users to add a label into a document such as Word or Excel. 
A label is composed of text and fields from your associated content type.  The requirement was to have the following format on the label:
  • {Protection Level} {Caveat}
After saving this policy, I opened a document of my content type in Word and was presented with the following message":
The Policy Label configuration is invalid.  Contact your Policy Administrator
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Well it turns out you can’t format your label with two content type fields on the same line with only blank space characters in between – hopefully this will be improved in the next update…
The following does work as alternatives:
  • {Protection Level} – {Caveat} (a character in-between the two fields)
  • {Protection Level} \n {Caveat} (note this places the Caveat field on a new line)

Update

Well it turns out you can use the ASCII tab escape character "\t":
  • {Protection Level} \t {Caveat}

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