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How to bulk move of workitems to new project area ?


Lakshmana Ekambaram (2135) | asked Nov 14 '11, 1:47 p.m.
One of our team has split their development work into two areas. Now they want to move half of their work items into a new project area.

RTC only moves one work item at a time. We are using 3.0.1 version of RTC. But they have about 500 work items in various states.

What is the best way to move these work items in bulk/mass ?

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Lukas Steiger (3131628) | answered Jun 20 '17, 8:48 a.m.

  Hi Jazz-Community, 


Are you aware of the new Open Source Jazz-Community on GitHub? The DACH Jazz-Community has founded this in May.2017. And we have now published some nice enhancements for RTC. 

Have a look at http://jazz-community.org 

One of the extensions is the WEB based RTC Bulk Work item Mover, our Company has implemented as OSS project. You find it on https://github.com/jazz-community/rtc-workitem-bulk-mover-ui 

This Bulk Work item Mover allows you to move work items between project areas on same CCM Instance. The Work item Mover is process aware and allows you to map types, enumerations etc. during the process. 
There are a couple of quite common use cases where moving selected number of Work Items is necessary:

  • Moving to another process template: There are multiple approaches to move to a new process template. One of it is to create an entirely new project area from scratch. Easily transferring the existing work items to the new area without changing the identifier and links is a key requirement there.
  • Splitting or merging projects: From our experience, changes in project structure or team setup often need to be reflected in RTC. As a result, project areas might be split or merged, raising the need to move the affected work items.
  • Defect Management: If, by example, your application is based on a platform, your users or customers may file defects against your application project area where they do not belong. You can then move them to the platform project area, whereas the issuer of the defect will still be able to receive updates on this defect.
See more on the GitHub project. Ideas, Enhancement Request, Defects can be filed directly there as Issues. If you like to collaborate on the development, please join us in the Community. 

Best Regards 
Guido Sschneider (IBM Champion and Co-Founder DACH Jazz-Community)
Lukas Steiger (Lead Developer and Co-Founder of github.com/jazz-community organization)

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David Sakoda (2126) | answered Apr 06 '18, 1:18 p.m.

that plugin is dope af. i just moved thousands of work items to a new project area. huge help. 


worked well with 6.0.2. many many thanks. i dont have enough reps for an upvote but UPVOTE!


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Lukas Steiger commented Apr 08 '18, 1:26 p.m.

 Great to hear that kind of feedback! I feel honored to hear that :-)


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VK L (8177157159) | answered Jul 14 '12, 5:07 a.m.
 Hi,
       Where you able to move bulk items? What are the steps involved?

Thanks.

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