Problem with Areas/Iterations not found

[udek801]

Hi

I am having a problem with mapping of areas/Iterations
Using 16.3.3 of the tool, I end up with this error:-

[11:39:18 WRN] [] !! There are MISSING Area or Iteration Paths 
[11:39:18 WRN] [] NOTE: It is NOT possible to migrate a work item if the Area or Iteration path does not exist on the target project. This is because the work item will be created with the same Area and Iteration path as the source work item with the project name swapped. The work item will not be created if the path does not exist. The only way to resolve this is to follow the instructions: 
[11:39:18 WRN] [] !! There are 2 Nodes (Area or Iteration) found in the history of the Source that are missing from the Target! These MUST be added or mapped before we can continue using the instructions on https://devopsmigration.io/Reference/Tools/TfsNodeStructureTool/#iteration-maps-and-area-maps 

My mapping config looks like this:-

 "Areas": {
          "Filters": ["*\\fmds"],			
          "Mappings": [
		  {
              "Match": "^fmds",
              "Replacement": "org-gprc-fmds"
		  }
          ]
        },
        "Iterations": {
		  "Filters": ["*\\fmds"],			
          "Mappings": [
		  {
			  "Match": "^fmds",
              "Replacement": "org-gprc-fmds"
		  }            			
          ]
        }

I have only the default area and iteration in both the source(on-prem TFS) and target (AzDo Cloud) projects.

Fron the logging, it seems these mappings are working correctly. But it looks as if the call to get the area from the target project is failing - hence the NOTFOUND logging.

[11:39:18 DBG] [] NodeStructureEnricher.GetNewNodeName::Mappers 
[11:39:18 DBG] [] NodeStructureEnricher.GetNewNodeName::Mappers::^fmds 
[11:39:18 DBG] [] NodeStructureEnricher.GetNewNodeName::Mappers::^fmds::Match 
[11:39:18 DBG] [] NodeStructureEnricher.GetNewNodeName::Mappers::^fmds::replaceWith(org-gprc-fmds) 
[11:39:18 VRB] [] TfsNodeStructureTool:CheckForMissingPaths:GetNewNodeName::{"anchored":true,"sourcePath":"fmds","sourceSystemPath":null,"targetPath":"org-gprc-fmds","targetSystemPath":null,"nodeType":"Area","startDate":null,"finishDate":null,"workItems":null,"sourcePathExists":false,"$type":"NodeStructureItem"} 
[11:39:18 DBG] [] TfsNodeStructureTool:CheckForMissingPaths:CheckTarget::\org-gprc-fmds\Area 
[11:39:18 DBG] [] TfsNodeStructureTool:CheckForMissingPaths:CheckTarget::NOTFOUND:\org-gprc-fmds\Area
[11:39:18 VRB] [] TfsNodeStructureTool:CheckForMissingPaths:CheckTarget::LOG-ONLY::{"anchored":true,"sourcePath":"fmds","sourceSystemPath":"\\fmds\\Area","targetPath":"org-gprc-fmds","targetSystemPath":"\\org-gprc-fmds\\Area","nodeType":"Area","startDate":null,"finishDate":null,"workItems":null,"sourcePathExists":false,"$type":"NodeStructureItem"} 

From looking at the code, it seems this call, within TfsNodeStructureTool.CheckForMissingPaths returns an exception (line 609 in the current source code)

NodeInfo c = _targetCommonStructureService.GetNodeFromPath(missingItem.targetSystemPath);

For reference, I used a previous version of the tool (16.3) a couple of months back to migrate several thousand items, with the same source and target platforms as this attempt.

Any idea what might be going wrong??

Thanks.

[udek801]

I found the problem. The service account that I was using for the target project had dropped out of an entra group, so it had no access to read the area and iteration definitions in the target project.
Discovered by running the code in debug in Visual Studio.

Onwards.....