Symptom
- After a system upgrade you are now receiving a Portal Runtime error when you logon to the Portal
- The Top Level Navigation (TLN) and/or content in the Portal Content Area are showing a Runtime error
- The issue can also occur when editing a role in Content Administration
- Checking the Developer/Default Trace files you observe the following error:
"[EXCEPTION]
com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentException: Error in service call of Portal Component
User : <user_id>
at com.sap.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.handlePortalComponentException(PortalRequestManager.java:776)
...
Caused by: com.sap.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManagerException: PortalRuntimeException
at com.sap.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:102)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method com.sapportals.portal.navigation.INavigationConnector.getInitialNodes(java.util.Hashtable) of a null object loaded from local variable 'conn'
at com.sapportals.portal.navigation.NavigationService.getExternalNodeChildrenNA(NavigationService.java:2828)"
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Environment
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java 7.3x and higher releases
- Enterprise Portal
Product
Keywords
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