2438898 - ESS / MSS portal applications not working after upgrade to NW 7.XX

• After accesing the upgraded portal a portal runtime exceptions, like the one below is shown:
      com.sap.portal.pcm.Title                                                                                                                                    
  
   !  Portal runtime error
      An exception occured while processing your request. Send the exception ID to your portal administrator.
      Exception ID HH:mm_DD/MM/YY_ServerNodeID
      See log file for details
    
• Upon checking the Default_Trace file for the exception id, the following stack trace is found:
  HH:mm_DD/MM/YY_ServerNodeID
  [EXCEPTION]
  com.sapportals.portal.prt.runtime.PortalRuntimeException: There is no portal component associated with the following context: pcd:portal_content/<PATH_TO_AFFECTED_CONTENT/<AFFECTED_CONTENT>
   at com.sap.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContext.<init>(PortalComponentContext.java:93)
   at com.sap.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContextFactory.createPortalComponentContext(PortalComponentContextFactory.java:185)
   at com.sap.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContextFactory.getPortalComponentContext(PortalComponentContextFactory.java:82)
   at com.sap.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentContextFactory.getPortalComponentContext(PortalComponentContextFactory.java:55)
   at com.sap.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentRequest.getComponentContext(PortalComponentRequest.java:407)
   at com.sapportals.portal.pb.PageBuilder.createIviewProfile(PageBuilder.java:508)
   at com.sapportals.portal.pb.PageBuilder.createiView(PageBuilder.java:454)
   at com.sapportals.portal.pb.PageBuilder.createAndAddiViews(PageBuilder.java:285)
   at com.sapportals.portal.pb.PageBuilder.doOnNodeReady(PageBuilder.java:713)
  (...)
    
• The portal was upgraded from a NW 7.0X to a 7.XX. For example, NW 7.01 to NW 7.50.

• SAP NW Enterprise Portal;
• ESS / MSS (Empoyee Self Service / Manager Serf Service) portal add-ons.

ESS; MSS; NW 7.0X; upgrade; exception; , KBA , CA-MSS-HCM , Manager Self-service (HR) , EP-PIN-PRT , Portal Runtime , BC-PIN-PCD , PCD Generic Layer Services , Problem