It is NOT possible to migrate a work item if the Area or Iteration path does not exist on the target project

[chicken90a]

I'm using Azure DevOps Migration Tools to migrate Work Items between two Azure DevOps projects, but I'm encountering the following error during migration:

[16.1.0] NodeStructureEnricher.NodePathNotAnchoredException(abc, Area)
[16.1.0] NodeStructureEnricher.NodePathNotAnchoredException(abc\PI 03, Iteration)

I have tried the following solutions, but the issue persists:
✅ Verified that the Area Path & Iteration Path exist in the target project
✅ Adjusted AreaMaps & IterationMaps in the config to ensure correct mapping
✅ Ran TfsNodeStructureTool separately, but it still reports the error
✅ Updated the tool to the latest version

Here’s my configuration:

"AreaMaps": {
  "^abc$": "VSA\\abc",
  "^abc\\\\(.+)": "VSA\\abc\\\\$1"
},
"IterationMaps": {
  "^abc$": "VSA\\abc",
  "^abc\\\\(.+)": "VSA\\abc\\\\$1"
}

I have retried multiple times with no success. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Could this be a bug?

Thanks in advance!

[MrHinsh]

Neither of your mapping lists follows the documentation:

"AreaMaps": {
"^abc$": "VSA\\abc",
"^abc\\\\(.+)": "VSA\\abc\\$1"
},
"IterationMaps": {
"^abc$": "VSA\\abc",
"^abc\\\\(.+)": "VSA\\abc\\$1"
}

Here Is a corrected version. As per the documentation you need to double escape the REGEX and single escape the target.

[chicken90a]

I tried it, but still the same

[MrHinsh]

You would need to provdide the full log and config.