3721109 - ERROR: "There was an error during form publishing" thrown when publishing a yFormDefinition by overriding an existing version in backoffice

Symptom

While attempting to publish a yFormDefinition in Backoffice by overriding an existing version—the following error may appear:

There was an error during form publishing

In opensearch log, the following error is observed:

"level": "ERROR",
"loggerName": "de.hybris.platform.xyformsweb.controllers.integration.OrbeonFormController",
"message": "YFormData with formDataId[<masked>] does not exist",

In Orbeon logs, the following messages are visible, indicating a version mismatch during persistence operations:

2026-02-25T17:40:26,649 DEBUG PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - loaded HTTP state {scope: "session"}
2026-02-25T17:40:26,657 DEBUG PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - opened connection {client: "Apache", effective URL: "http://localhost:8081/xyformsweb/fr/service/hybris/crud/yforms/<masked>/form/form.xhtml?document=c34b84fb-aaac-4bf7-a955-fe529143a091", method: "HEAD", Orbeon-Versioning: "true", Orbeon-Roles: "yformsmanagergroup", Hybris-Orbeonweb-Proxy: "<masked>", Orbeon-Credentials: "{"username":"<masked>","groups":[],"roles":[{"name":"yformsmanagergroup"}],"organizations":[]}", Orbeon-Form-Definition-Version: "4", Orbeon-Username: "<masked>", Orbeon-Token: "<masked>"}
2026-02-25T17:40:26,658 DEBUG PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - response {status code: "200"}
2026-02-25T17:40:26,658 DEBUG PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - response headers {Keep-Alive: "timeout=20", Connection: "keep-alive", Content-Length: "0", Orbeon-Form-Definition-Version: "1", Date: "Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:40:26 GMT", Set-Cookie: "JSESSIONID=<masked>.backoffice-***-***; Path=/xyformsweb; HttpOnly"}
2026-02-25T17:40:26,658 DEBUG PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - response has no content
2026-02-25T17:40:26,658 DEBUG PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - saved HTTP state {scope: "session", cookie names: "JSESSIONID"}
2026-02-25T17:40:26,659 INFO PersistenceProxyProcessor$ - 400 Bad Request: incoming version (4) doesn't match version from provider (1)
2026-02-25T17:40:26,660 INFO PageFlowControllerProcessor - HTTP status code 400 {controller: "oxf:/apps/fr/page-flow.xml", method: "PUT", path: "/fr/service/persistence/crud/yforms/<masked>/form/form.xhtml", status-code: "400"}

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Environment

SAP Commerce
SAP Commerce Cloud

Product

SAP Commerce Cloud all versions ; SAP Commerce all versions

Keywords

yFormDefinition publishing error, persistence version mismatch, yformdata, PersistenceProxyProcessor, PageFlowControllerProcessor, HTTP status code 400, validation, form publish , KBA , CEC-SCC-COM-YFO , yforms , Problem

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