Migrating workitems (with History and attachments)
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Hi All,
I need to migrate workitems from one project area to another. Following are the 2 options that i thought of: 1. Export and import workitems - later archive the old project area - History cannot be exported? 2. Move workitems to another project area Which is the best option? I am looking at moving workitems from multiple project areas to 1 common project area. Thanks. |
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I'm on a team that does a lot of work item migrations, and we have to preserve attachments and dependencies. To support those requirements, we've adopted an open-source EDI tool called Spoon that's included with the open-source Pentaho BI solution. My team is supported by a small dev team that's done significant work building transformations and data adapters to make this work. If you've got a few devs handy, that's one way to go.
However, if you've got some devs handy, another way to go is to leverage the APIs to build your own ETL tool. I've heard some of our devs say that they'd go that route if they could do it over again. Before you ask, I'm sorry but I cannot provide the tool. If you haven't looked at TaskTop Sync, perhaps you should. It can get you a good way down the data integration path, and it's commercially available.
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