Workitems have been migrated but relationships are missing

[cepcruzz]

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Describe your issue:

Migrating workitems, i was able to migrate the workitems like Epic, Feature, Task, and Requirement. But the relationships are missing. The feature that was link to the Epic from the source organization is now linked in the target organization.
Please try to describe your objective.

Describe any Exceptions:

Heres the snippet of the processor WorkItemMigrationConfig

  "Processors": [
    {
      "$type": "WorkItemMigrationConfig",
      "Enabled": true,
      "ReplayRevisions": true,
      "PrefixProjectToNodes": false,
      "UpdateCreatedDate": true,
      "UpdateCreatedBy": true,
      "WIQLQueryBit": "AND [System.WorkItemType] NOT IN ('Test Suite', 'Test Plan', 'Shared Steps', 'Shared Parameter', 'Feedback Request', 'Test Case') AND ([System.State] <> '' AND ([System.ChangedDate] > '2019-08-01T00:00:00.0000000' AND [System.ChangedDate] <= '2019-08-31T00:00:00.0000000'))",
      "WIQLOrderBit": "[System.ChangedDate] desc",
      "LinkMigration": true,
      "AttachmentMigration": true,
      "AttachmentWorkingPath": "c:\\temp\\WorkItemAttachmentWorkingFolder\\",
      "FixHtmlAttachmentLinks": false,
      "SkipToFinalRevisedWorkItemType": true,
      "WorkItemCreateRetryLimit": 5,
      "FilterWorkItemsThatAlreadyExistInTarget": true,
      "PauseAfterEachWorkItem": false,
      "AttachmentMaxSize": 480000000,
      "AttachRevisionHistory": false,
      "LinkMigrationSaveEachAsAdded": false,
      "GenerateMigrationComment": true,
      "WorkItemIDs": null,
      "MaxRevisions": 0,
      "NodeStructureEnricherEnabled": null,
      "UseCommonNodeStructureEnricherConfig": false,
      "StopMigrationOnMissingAreaIterationNodes": true,
      "NodeBasePaths": [],
      "AreaMaps": {},
      "IterationMaps": {},
      "MaxGracefulFailures": 0,
      "SkipRevisionWithInvalidIterationPath": false,
      "SkipRevisionWithInvalidAreaPath": false
    }
  ],

  "Version": "12.3",
  "workaroundForQuerySOAPBugEnabled": false,
  "WorkItemTypeDefinition": {
    "sourceWorkItemTypeName": "targetWorkItemTypeName"
  },

Source Details

• Source Version: Azure DevOps Services,
• Source Language: Eng

Target Details

• Target Version: e.g. Azure DevOps Services
• Target Language: e.g. Eng

I have completed the following:

• Enable Debug in the Logfile - You can set "LogLevel": "Debug" in the configuration file which will output more information to the log.
• Please specify the Source and Target environments above - Which versions are you migrating from/to Azure DevOps Server 2019, Azure DevOps Services, TFS 20xx.
• Attach the full Logfile from your last run - You can obtuse any of the data that you want, but it's really helpful to have the full log to see what lead up to the issue. Do not copy and paste the entire log in here! Attach the file to the issue!
• Attach the full Configuration file - You can obtuse any of the data that you want, but it's really helpful to have the full config. Do not copy and paste the entire log in here! Attach the file to the issue!

Many issues are due to edge cases and will need debugging in Visual Studio; we cant do that for you on your environment.

[cepcruzz]

I got some errors from the logs:
[SKIP] Unable to migrate link where Link of type System.LinkTypes.Hierarchy-Reverse where wiSourceL=399, wiSourceR=394, wiTargetL=575, wiTargetR=394 as target WI has not been migrated

[MrHinsh]

@cepcruzz links will be skipped for for work items that don't exist yet.

If you are Migrating WorkItemA and WorkItemB which are linked then when the first one is created it cant yet create the link as the other does not yet exist.

[cepcruzz]

Hi @MrHinsh appreciate the response. I got it! Thanks, apparently the issue was my query. I understand now. The migration tool found out that the work item has links but the linked work item was not included on my query. Hence was not migrated..

Any, thats for the basic work items like epic, feature, tasks. But how about the the items like Code Review and Shared Steps? How can we migrate it if we cant add custom fields on those kinds of items? :)