Shared Steps does not contain ReflectedWorkItemId

[BialekA]

Hey, I am trying to transfer workitems with the following configuration:

{
  "Version": "12.0",
  "LogLevel": "Verbose",
  "workaroundForQuerySOAPBugEnabled": false,
  "Source": {
    "$type": "TfsTeamProjectConfig",
    "Collection": "https://tfs2018a/DefaultCollection",
    "Project": "projectA",
    "ReflectedWorkItemIDFieldName": "custom.ReflectedWorkItemId",
    "AuthenticationMode": "Prompt",
    "AllowCrossProjectLinking": false,
    "PersonalAccessToken": "some long token",
    "LanguageMaps": {
      "AreaPath": "Area",
      "IterationPath": "Iteration"
    }
  },
  "Target": {
    "$type": "TfsTeamProjectConfig",
    "Collection": "my project site",
    "Project": "project b",
    "ReflectedWorkItemIDFieldName": "ReflectedWorkItemId",
    "AuthenticationMode": "AccessToken",
    "AllowCrossProjectLinking": false,
    "PersonalAccessToken": "some long token",
    "LanguageMaps": {
      "AreaPath": "Area",
      "IterationPath": "Iteration"
    }
  },
  "FieldMaps": [
    {
      "$type": "TreeToTagMapConfig",
      "WorkItemTypeName": "*",
      "toSkip": 3,
      "timeTravel": 1
    }
  ],
  "WorkItemTypeDefinition": {
    "sourceWorkItemTypeName": "targetWorkItemTypeName"
  },
  "GitRepoMapping": null,
  "Processors": [
    {
     "$type": "WorkItemDeleteConfig",
     "Enabled": true,
     "WIQLQueryBit": "AND [System.WorkItemType] NOT IN ('Test Suite', 'Test Plan')",
     "WIQLOrderBit": "[System.ChangedDate] desc"
    },
    {
      "$type": "WorkItemMigrationConfig",
      "Enabled": true,
      "ReplayRevisions": true,
      "PrefixProjectToNodes": false,
      "UpdateCreatedDate": true,
      "UpdateCreatedBy": true,
      "WIQLQueryBit": "AND [System.WorkItemType] NOT IN ('Test Suite', 'Test Plan')",
      "WIQLOrderBit": "[System.ChangedDate] desc",
      "LinkMigration": true,
      "AttachmentMigration": true,
      "AttachmentWorkingPath": "c:\\temp\\WorkItemAttachmentWorkingFolder\\",
      "FixHtmlAttachmentLinks": false,
      "SkipToFinalRevisedWorkItemType": false,
      "WorkItemCreateRetryLimit": 5,
      "FilterWorkItemsThatAlreadyExistInTarget": false,
      "PauseAfterEachWorkItem": false,
      "AttachmentMaxSize": 480000000,
      "AttachRevisionHistory": true,
      "LinkMigrationSaveEachAsAdded": true,
      "GenerateMigrationComment": true,
      "WorkItemIDs": null,
      "MaxRevisions": 0,
      "NodeStructureEnricherEnabled": true,
      "UseCommonNodeStructureEnricherConfig": false,
      "NodeBasePaths": [],
      "AreaMaps": {},
      "IterationMaps": {},
      "MaxGracefulFailures": 0
    }

  ]
}

On the first project I manage to transfer all work items, but when I ran it on another project I get this error:

[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: Task contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: Bug contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: Test Case contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: User Story contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: Feature contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: Epic contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 DBG] ValidatingRequiredField: Issue contains ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 WRN] ValidatingRequiredField: Shared Steps does not contain ReflectedWorkItemId
[17:21:49 WRN] ValidatingRequiredField: Shared Parameter does not contain ReflectedWorkItemId

How do I ReflectedWorkItemId for Shared Steps and Shared Parameter?

[MrHinsh]

You would need to exclude Shared Steps and Shared Parameters from the migration.

Run a second migration using an existing field for ReflectedWorkItemId as a workaround.

[anish2808]

@MrHinsh - can you please elaborate on this - Run a second migration using an existing field for ReflectedWorkItemId as a workaround.

How can I do this? An example would be really helpful.
Thank you.

[MrHinsh]

Instead of using a custom reflectedWorkItemID field you can use a field that exists on the work items that you want to migrate.

The downside is that linking will not work, however it can allow you to migrate these sorts of items.