Migrate work items from Beta 2 to Beta 3?
Ok, first of all let me state clearly for the record. I fully realize that MSFT does not officially support work item migration from Beta 2 to Beta 3. I also realize Beta 2 did not have a GO-LIVE license with it, so I am officially on my own on this one.
Having said that, "un-officially" is there anything I can do to half-way get this to work?
When my team moved from Beta 1 Refresh -> Beta 2, we exported all of our work items to Excel, then created a new work item list within Excel for Beta 2 and then did a builk entry that way. While this worked ok, we had to manually copy over all of the history text from the old work items.
Technically I could do that this time as well, but now our work items have grown to 4,000 plus items, so I really don't want to do that by hand! (However, am willing if I have to).
In the Beta 2 CurrituckDB there is a table called "WorkItemLongTexts" that appears to have all of the history items in it. In Beta 3 there is pretty much the same table with the addition of a Rev column (appears to be number of history entries). I tried to manually enter a new row into this table expecting it to show up in the history, however this did NOT work. Am I missing something here?
Is anybody else doing something to migrate their work items. I am ok with losing file attachments (if needed) but really need to keep history comments for past discussions.
Thanks!
~slee
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slee] at [2007-12-17]
Hi Slee,
I am planning to do to export all the bugs from beta2 to beta3 and i am using object model of workItem for this. I have been able to successfully create Xml file with all the workItem Data includuing History ,Links, File attachment( look at the sample app in Beta2 extensibility kit to do this) else I can even forward you the whole exporting code.
Now I'm waiting for Beta3 extensibility kit to come to try importing Work Items in Beta3 TFS server. Once I can do this successfully I'll upgrade my bug server from beta2 to beta3 and import all the workItems as well.
Good luck,
Anu
Anu,
I have had to make some other slight modifications to your code in order for this to work properly. For instance, I deleted the 'if' statement on line 169. (It was only saving the xml if the project name was 'test'.
I also had to add some code to strip out all HTML tags as well as other tags that were causing the XML create node to die (xml doesn't like '&').
How do you want me to update your code for others to use?
Thanks,
~slee
Oh, that was cut paste error from code above for AttachmentNameNode.
Regarding 'test' project, that is actually because I forgot to remove hardcoded TeamProject name while creating Node in XMl file.
For html tag I did not have problem creating file for any tag, I guess '&' is the only one which might be causing issue.
Anu
