Old Hyperlinks are no longer permitted - migration error - VerbatimMessageException

[ptc-96]

Hello,

I am encountering an error while migrating work items using Azure DevOps Migration Tools.

I have some work items created long time ago which has hyperlinks at links tab like "annotation://app123456/***sdskudg547347andsomerandomid." I guess that at that time is was allowed to put no matter how on URL, but now it seems that is no longer the case.

SO, when running migration, it fails with the following message:

The URL specified has a potentially unsafe URL protocol. Please specify a different URL. The URL specified is: annotation://app123456/***sdskudg547347andsomerandomid.
URI schemes supported are: http, https, ftp, gopher, mailto, news, telnet, wais, vstfs, tfs, alm, mtm, mtms, mtr, mtrs, mfbclient, mfbclients, test-runner, x-mvwit, onenote, codeflow, file, tel, skype.

As a result, the work item cannot be migrated and the process stops.

Is there a recommended way to handle or filter out unsupported URL protocols (like notes://) during migration?

I have tested some configurations of:

• StringManipulatorTool- RegexStringManipulator
• TfsWorkItemEmbededLinkTool
• FieldMappingTool

but any of these seems to solve the problem.

Any guidance or workaround would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[MrHinsh]

The only hope OOB was StringManipulatorTool but it does not run against teh URL in the LinkMigrator....

Will need a code change.

[MrHinsh]

Created #2994

[MrHinsh]

OK, shipped in https://github.com/nkdAgility/azure-devops-migration-tools/releases/tag/v16.3.2-Preview.1 <--- try that!

[ptc-96]

Thank you very much for the quick reaction and solution.

Now there is no longer errors when running the migration. However, now the links are simply ignored so they disappear...
What I actually need is to be able to apply some kind of transformation to keep them. I was thinking of something like adding a prefix to transform them, or moving them somewhere as plain text so that the information can be preserved in the new work item.

Do you have any suggestions to achieve that ?

Again thanks so much for the help and all the amazing job you are doing with this tool :)

[MrHinsh]

What future value do you feel that they will provide?

[ptc-96]

I was thinking about the possibility of adding a step to the hyperlink creation process (like for example using the TfsWorkItemEmbededLinkTool) in order to apply a prefix and transform them into valid URLs

Do you think it’s feasible? I think this coul be the easiest solution, but of course I don’t know the tool as a whole that well, so I’m not sure if there might be a better one.