When successfully exporting using Octo.exe we encountered the following exception when importing a project with Channel Rules with Tag filters.
D:\Data\Octopus\Work\20170223140131-20\octo.exe
14:01:38 Info | import
14:01:38 Info | --server=http://##:##/api
14:01:38 Info | --apiKey=####
14:01:38 Info | --type=project
14:01:38 Info | --filePath=D:\Data\Octopus\ProjectExport\Logging-Service.json
14:01:44 Info | Octopus Deploy Command Line Tool, version 4.6.0 Handshaking with Octopus server: http://wwokpavpsb01:9090/api Handshake successful. Octopus version: 3.8.6; API version: 3.0.0 Authenticated as: ### Finding importer ‘project’ Validating the import Export file successfully loaded Checking that lifecycle Normal Production Lifecycle exists Found lifecycle ‘Normal Production Lifecycle’ Checking that all environments exist Checking that all machines exist Checking that all NuGet Feeds exist Checking that all Action Templates exist Checking that all Library Variable Sets exist Checking that the Project Group exist Checking that all channel lifecycles exist No validation errors found. Project is ready to import. Beginning the import Beginning import of project ‘Logging Service’ Importing Project Project does not exist, a new project will be created Importing the channels for the project Channel already exists, channel will be updated with new settings Octopus Server returned an error: Unable to find action names System.Linq.Enumerable+<ExceptIterator>d__72
1[System.String]on project
Projects-25Server exception: System.Exception: Unable to find action names
System.Linq.Enumerable+d__721[System.String]
on project Projects-25
at Octopus.Server.Web.CanonicalActionNameMapper.GetIdsFromNames(String projectId, ReferenceCollection actionNames) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\CanonicalActionNameMapper.cs:line 45 at Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Rules.ChannelVersionRulesWillBePersisted.<>c__DisplayClass6_0.b__0(ChannelVersionRuleResource rule) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\Api\Rules\ChannelVersionRulesWillBePersisted.cs:line 25 at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectListIterator2.MoveNext() at System.Collections.Generic.List
1…ctor(IEnumerable1 collection) at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable
1 source) at Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Rules.ChannelVersionRulesWillBePersisted.AfterMapBeforeStore(Channel model, ChannelResource resource, ISpecialRuleContext context) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\Api\Rules\ChannelVersionRulesWillBePersisted.cs:line 24 at Octopus.Server.Web.Infrastructure.Api.Responder1.ExecuteRules[TRule](Action
2 ruleCallback) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\Infrastructure\Api\Responder.cs:line 171 at Octopus.Server.Web.Infrastructure.Api.ModifyResponseDescriptor2.Responder.Execute() in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\Infrastructure\Api\ModifyResponseDescriptor.cs:line 64 at Octopus.Server.Web.Infrastructure.Api.Responder
1.Respond(TDescriptor options, NancyContext context) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\Infrastructure\Api\Responder.cs:line 145 at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute3[T0,T1,T2,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2) at Octopus.Server.Web.Api.OctopusRestApiModule.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.<.ctor>b__0(Object o) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Web\Api\OctopusRestApiModule.cs:line 46 at Nancy.Routing.Route.<>c__DisplayClass4.b__3(Object parameters, CancellationToken context) ----------------------- Error from Octopus server (HTTP 500 InternalServerError) Exit code: -7
14:01:44 Verbose | Updating manifest with output variables
14:01:45 Fatal | The remote script failed with exit code -7
14:01:45 Verbose | at Octopus.Worker.Scripting.ScriptResult.EnsureSuccessful() in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Worker\Scripting\ScriptResult.cs:line 69
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.Script.ServerScriptActionHandler.Execute(ActionCommand command, Machine machine) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Orchestration\Deploy\Script\ServerScriptActionHandler.cs:line 55
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.Guidance.Execute(Action callback) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Orchestration\Deploy\Guidance.cs:line 60
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.DeploymentTaskController.ExecuteWithTransientErrorDetection(Action action, Machine machine) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Orchestration\Deploy\DeploymentTaskController.cs:line 424
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.DeploymentTaskController.ExecuteActionAndInitLoggingContext(PlannedStep step, Machine machine, PlannedAction action) in Z:\buildAgent\workDir\eec88466c176b607\source\Octopus.Server\Orchestration\Deploy\DeploymentTaskController.cs:line 322
14:01:45 Fatal | Import Project File on the Octopus Server
We remove the filters and it exports and import fine.
Thanks Rich