Preserving Azure Board structure in Migration

[Bemesko]

Hi, I'm going to do a big migration using this tool soon and I wanted to know if there is a way of migrating not only the Work Items, but also the board configuration in Azure Devops.

To put it in more detail, I have an old Azure Devops project that needs to be moved to a new Organization in the same Active Directory. One piece of information that would be helpful to keep is the cards' column and swimlane arrangement in the boards.

The old project is configured in such a way that almost all columns (about 15) are mapped to the New state for all work item types, so I can't rely on setting up the relationship between columns and states after the migration.

What I've tried so far:

• Searching the documentation and Q&As
• Doing a migration to a project I've made from scratch with only the minimal adjustments for the migration to work (importing the source project's process and adding the ReflectedWorkItemId)
• Doing a migration to a project with the board structure already configured
  • All cards in the board were mapped to the first column assigned to their respective state, in my case that wasn't very helpful since there were 15 columns mapped to New.

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I'm not that familiar with the way the Board information is stored in Azure, so I wanted some help in figuring out if this info can be migrated and how I could go about doing that.

Thanks in advance!

[MrHinsh]

We do not currently support migrating the Boards. However, if you recreate the boards as they are on the source then the data will slot into the right place.

We would love a PR that adds that capability as an additional Migrator using the v2 API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/work/?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1