Visual Studio Online move PBI and tasks from one project to another

Question

I'm using Visual Studio Online I have created a project A with PBI's that has many tasks inside them. I have now created a new project B and would like to move/copy/migrate the PBI's and tasks from project A to this project B. How do I achieve this.

Answer 1

You can do this quite easily using the Excel integration feature.

1. In Project A, create a query that lists all your work items.

2. Open Microsoft Excel, go the TEAM tab.

3. Click 'New List', select your project, select 'Query List', select the query you just created.

4. In the Work Items tab select the 'Choose Columns' button and select all the columns you want to migrate.

5. Open another Excel Spreadsheet and create a 'New List'. This time connect to Project B and select the 'Input List'.

6. Copy and paste all the work items from Project A list to the Project B list (excluding the Id column).

7. Click Publish.