Not able to migrate workitems from TFS to ADO due to custom field data type mismatch.

[sumitnkoul91]

Actually, I am trying to migrate my workitems from TFS to ADO but not able to migrate due to custom field type mismatch. I have custom field type string in TFS and the same field in ADO has Picklist type. Is there any workaround for this. My validation is getting failed. I also tried to exclude those mapping as well but didn't help.

configuration.json
error2 1.txt

Could someone please help me here.
Thanks in advance
Please find the error log file and configuration.json in the attachment

[sergeykrulikovskiy]

I’m not an expert, but if you search for the word MISSING in your log file, you’ll see that the tool is unable to find many custom fields. You may want to start by addressing these issues. If those fields are not required, you can skip them using the TfsWorkItemTypeValidatorTool (there is an ExcludeSourceFields parameter).

[sumitnkoul91]

@sergeykrulikovskiy Thanks for taking out the time and answering my question but just for testing I tried adding the "ExcludeSourceFields" parameter but I am still getting the same issue. Actually we need those custom fields.

All the custom fields are present in ADO and TFS but the only difference we observed is their data type is different and we can't change their data types. Is there any way we can resolve this issue. We are stuck for a very long time. Please could you suggest something so that we can move forward.

We tried this for our ADO to ADO migration that went very well we got all the items in place after migration.