How do I migrate links to other work items added in the work item description?

[michael-buchner]

The tools migrates the description but the links are pointing to the source work items.

[michael-buchner]

I need further help on this. We urgently need to move a Team Project to another collection and the links refer to the source Work Items after migration. Please help.

[michael-buchner]

@MrHinsh Please help. Thanks.

[MrHinsh]

The links are migrated automatically if their migration is turned on. Please rause an issue with your log file and other requrested data.

[MrHinsh]

Wait... Are the links in the description?

We don't have anything to help there.

[michael-buchner]

Yes, it's about links in the work item description (refer to my initial question). The tool works pretty fine so far but we have issues with links in the work item description (pointing to the source team project) and with migrating teams (see #1245).

[MrHinsh]

Resurfaced on #1442

[MrHinsh]

You can't; the Description or Comment fields are not edited.

If someone adds a link in the System.Description field from WorkItemA to WorkItemB, then Azure DevOps automatically makes that a pretty link in the html and then adds a related link to the work item. When we do the migration of WorkItemA we are unable to update the link in the description as WorkItemB does not yet exist. When WorkItemB is processed the related link on the work item back to WorkItemA is added.

We do not update the description or comment of WorkItemA when we process WorkItemB as this would bump System.Rev and may interfere with the migration.

Future Resolution: We have considered stripping the links in the Description and Comment and just leaving the title of the work item.