Frustrating Errors. Trying to test migration of 2 Items.

[OCMarkW]

I have filters set for Area, Iteration and Team. And a WIQL that will select 2 items. But I keep getting
VS402485: The Area/Iteration name is not recognized: SPE Project Collection\Z.ARCHIVE\Fuel System\2023 Sprint 17 - P23

a couple of lines above, I get the filter notification
[14:26:40 WRN] [16.3.1] The node SPE Project Collection\Z.ARCHIVE is being excluded due to your Filters setting on TfsNodeStructureToolOptions.

And the about node is not in the revision history of the 2 very simple items.

I have tried many config refactors, with no success.

What am I doing wrong? Need help

[OCMarkW]

If I have this in my Config file:
{
"ProcessorType": "TfsTeamSettingsProcessor",
"Enabled": true,
"MigrateTeamSettings": false,
"UpdateTeamSettings": false,
"PrefixProjectToNodes": false,
"MigrateTeamCapacities": false,
"Areas": {
"Filters": ["SPE Project Collection\FuelDepot", "SPE Project Collection\InControl", "SPE Project Collection\PGM Solutions"]
}, .......

Why would I get and error trying to update an Iterations?
[15:06:08 FTL] [16.3.1] Error while running TfsWorkItemMigrationProcessor
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: TF400495: A team iteration cannot be created for the specified iteration node. A team iteration already exists for that node.

[johannedin]

Hi,Could it be that you have your Tool in the wrong location in the config. I have area and iterations working in my config --
(Look for my TODOs in the config below) Note that you need to add your source and target etc...

{
  "$schema": "https://devopsmigration.io/schema/configuration.schema.json",
  "Serilog": {
    "MinimumLevel": "Information"
  },
  "MigrationTools": {
    "Version": "16.3",
    "Endpoints": {
      "Source": {
        "EndpointType": "TfsTeamProjectEndpoint",
        "Collection": "http://myserver/DefaultCollection/",
        "Project": "MyProject",
        "Authentication": {
          "AuthenticationMode": "Prompt",
          "AccessToken": ""
        },
        "ReflectedWorkItemIdField": "Microsoft.VSTS.Build.IntegrationBuild",
        "LanguageMaps": {
          "AreaPath": "Area",
          "IterationPath": "Iteration"
        },
        "ProductVersion": "OnPremises"
      },
      "Target": {
        "EndpointType": "TfsTeamProjectEndpoint",
        "Collection": "https://dev.azure.com/MyCollection/",
        "Project": "MyTarget",
        "Authentication": {
          "AuthenticationMode": "AccessToken",
          "AccessToken": "my token"
        },
        "ReflectedWorkItemIdField": "Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId",
        "LanguageMaps": {
          "AreaPath": "Area",
          "IterationPath": "Iteration"
        },
        "TfsVersion": "AzureDevOps"
      }
    },
"Iterations": {
**DON'T think these are used**
  "Mappings": [
    {
      "Match": "Something\\[GA 1.0]\\[GA 1.0] MS9",
      "Replacement": "MyProject\\[TA 1.0]\\[TA 1.0] YS9"
    }
  ]
},
"Areas": {
  "Mappings": [
    {
      "Match": "Something",
      "Replacement": "MyProject"
    }
  ]
},
    "Processors": [
    {
      "ProcessorType": "TfsWorkItemMigrationProcessor",
      TODO: Use upoir typical processor here
    } 
 ],
    "CommonTools": {
	"TfsEmbededImagesTool": {
        "Enabled": true
      },
      "TfsNodeStructureTool": {
**TODO: These are the area and filter mappings that matters**
        "Areas": {
          "Filters": [],
          "Mappings": [
            {
      		"Match": "^SomethingElse([\\\\]?.*)$",
      	        "Replacement": "SomethingElse$1"
            },
            {
      		"Match": "^Snucke([\\\\]?.*)$",
      	        "Replacement": "Snucke$1"
            }
          ]
        },
        "Enabled": true,
        "Iterations": {
          "Filters": [],
          "Mappings": [
            {
      		"Match": "^Something([\\\\]?.*)$",
      	        "Replacement": "Something$1"
            },
            {
      		"Match": "^Snucke([\\\\]?.*)$",
      	        "Replacement": "Snucke$1"
            }
          ]
        },
        "ReplicateAllExistingNodes": true,
        "ShouldCreateMissingRevisionPaths": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Hopefully this helps! I am new to this tool as well...

/ Johan

[MrHinsh]

Im glad we were about to connect for a coffee, Mark! Hopefully, you are all sorted now.

[OCMarkW]

Postmortem to my problem. First, many thanks to my friend Martin for his help.
My use case – only migrating two types of work items in three Project Areas (out of ~50) and the work items associated nodes used in the items.

In the config, less is more.

The WorkItemMigrationProcessor got reduced to:
{
"ProcessorType": "TfsWorkItemMigrationProcessor",
"Enabled": true,
"WIQLQuery": "SELECT [System.Id] FROM workitems WHERE [System.TeamProject] = @teamproject AND [System.WorkItemType] IN ('Initiative', 'Epic') AND [Tags] Contains 'MigrateTest' ORDER BY [System.ChangedDate] DESC",
"SourceName": "Source",
"TargetName": "Target"
},

In NodeStructureTool, create the correct Area, Iteration mappings to get around issues. The base mapping is as follows and more important, I set the last two flags as:
"TfsNodeStructureTool": {
"Enabled": true,
"Areas": {
"Mappings": [
{
"Match": "^SPE Project Collection\\(.*)$",
"Replacement": "SPE Project Collection\$1"

"ShouldCreateMissingRevisionPaths": true,
"ReplicateAllExistingNodes": false

Lastly, to get around all the various Team setting I did not want, I had to add in Common Tools:
"TfsTeamSettingsTool": {
"Enabled": false,
"MigrateTeamCapacities": true,
"MigrateTeamSettings": true,
"Teams": [
"FuelDepot", "InControl", "PGM"
],
"UpdateTeamSettings": true
},