How to exclude System Work Item Types

[carebear93]

Hi Team, just to preface I have seen similar issues raised to these type of errors but could not understand what a summarized solution is in regards to configuring work item validation in the config. I am trying to use the Migration tools running version 16.3.0 and I get the following validation errors on these system work item types:

[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Code Review Request' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'. [16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Code Review Response' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'. [16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Feedback Request' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'. [16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Feedback Response' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'. [16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Shared Steps' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'. [16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Shared Parameter' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.

I am a little confused with these errors as these can't be edited to include the custom work field and I think with how our custom process is setup I do not care if these are validated are not. My other work item types seems to be okay in the output:

'[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating presence of reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId' in target work item types.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Code Review Request' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Code Review Response' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Feedback Request' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Feedback Response' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Shared Steps' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] 'Shared Parameter' does not contain reflected work item ID field 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 ERR] [16.3.0] Reflected work item ID field is mandatory for work item migration. You can configure name of this field in target TFS endpoint settings as 'ReflectedWorkItemIdField' property. Your current configured name of the field is 'Custom.ReflectedWorkItemId'.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item types.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Source work item types are: Task, Bug, Code Review Request, Code Review Response, Epic, Feature, Feedback Request, Feedback Response, Impediment, Product Backlog Item, Shared Steps, Shared Parameter, Test Case, Test Plan, Test Suite, Support, Phase.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Target work item types are: Task, Bug, Code Review Request, Code Review Response, Epic, Feature, Feedback Request, Feedback Response, Impediment, Product Backlog Item, Shared Steps, Shared Parameter, Test Case, Test Plan, Test Suite, Phase, Support.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Task'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Bug'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Code Review Request'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Code Review Response'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Epic'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Feature'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Feedback Request'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Feedback Response'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Impediment'
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:03 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Product Backlog Item'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Shared Steps'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Shared Parameter'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Test Case'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Test Plan'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Test Suite'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Support'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] Validating work item type 'Phase'
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All fields are either present or mapped.
[16:41:04 INF] [16.3.0] All work item types are valid.
[16:41:04 ERR] [16.3.0] Validation of work item types failed.'

I have tried including the TfsWorkItemTypeValidtor in my config:

"TfsWorkItemTypeValidatorTool": { "Enabled": true, "IncludeWorkItemtypes": [], "ExcludeWorkItemtypes": [ "Code Review Request", "Code Review Response", "Feedback Request", "Feedback Response", "Shared Parameter", "Shared Steps" ] }

I have tried following several ways using the docs but I am little lost on how to get past this issue. Maybe I am misunderstanding the issue I am having. I have attached my current config file, I am just trying to migrate our work items to our new devops org/ project. Any advice on what this error is greatly appreciated.
configuration.json

[MrHinsh]

In the attached config the "TfsWorkItemTypeValidatorTool" is inside "FieldMappingTool". You are mising a closing bracket.

Thats why the TfsWorkItemTypeValidatorTool is not being recognised...

[carebear93]

Hi @MrHinsh thank for the prompt reply, and apologies from me for such an simple miss. I have adjusted as follows:

"CommonTools": {
      "FieldMappingTool": {
        "Enabled": true,
        "FieldMaps": [
          {
            "FieldMapType": "FieldLiteralMap",
            "targetField": "Custom.SomeField",
            "value": "New field value",
            "ApplyTo": [
              "SomeWorkItemType"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "TfsWorkItemTypeValidatorTool": {
        "Enabled": true,
        "ExcludeWorkItemtypes": [],
        "ExcludeDefaultWorkItemTypes": true
      }
    }

It does seem to be reading the parameter options now, when I set Enabled to false I see the differences in output log but I am still getting the errors for the default work items such as 'Code Review Request' is there a setting in this config I am missing?

[MrHinsh]

Yes, this config you have is for v16.3.1, which is still pending approval on Winget. You can donload manually, or use the follwing:

"TfsWorkItemTypeValidatorTool": {
        "Enabled": true,
        "IncludeWorkItemtypes": ["Work", "Items"],
}

And add explicitly all the work items that you want to migrate to the list

[carebear93]

Thank you for the support this has resolved my issue.