How to delete dangling "mentioned by" lins from deleted work items?
In my system, work item A is mentioning WI B.
When I delete WI A and open WI B, it still has "mentioned by WI A" link. How to remove this dangling link? |
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Normally those links should be deleted, but they are not due to a bug.
273166: Deleting a work item does not delete a mentions link that is made from it There is a workaround mentioned in the WI to delete the links by importing modified CSV file: - create a query that will collect all the work items with such dead links - CSV export query with default column values - edit CSV file - add a column "Mentioned By" - for each work item in CSV file, either add a blank value "" or keep valid links only - save CSV file - CSV import this file. Select to: - update existing work items - replace existing links with newly imported values - import --> dead links are removed This workaround is not guaranteed to work, so please test it before trying on production data. |
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