Process Chains Greyed in QA

HI ,
I have transported my process chains from my Dev to QA, they are all active in Dev and they dont display in QA, but the name of the process chains still appear under the root "Not assigned", And all my Transports were also good, This is the first time I'm comming across this issue, can some one give your feedback on this.
Thanks alot in advance,

Looks like your Process Chain name was transported, but not all the variants (processes) tha make up the chain.
Try creating a new transport. In DEV, bring up your process chain and press the transport icon (truck). This will bring up the Transport Connection screen with all the objects for your Process Chain selected. On the Transport Connection screen, press the transport icon (truck) to create a new transport request.
Hope this helps.

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