After Sites Login, Left Navigation Is Not Working As Expected After Applying The Latest Patch (Doc ID 3065737.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 03, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

On : 12.2.1.4.0 version, WebCenter Sites

After applying the latest sites patch and login to Sites UI,
the following error occurs.

ERROR
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The left navigation is not displayed and sites.log shows below error

[2024-12-03T15:31:36.256+05:30] [wcsites_server1] [ERROR] [] [oracle.wcsites.controller] [tid: 188] [userId: ] [ecid: ....] [APP: sites] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] An exception occurred[[
com.fatwire.cs.ui.framework.UIException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at jsp_servlet._jsp._cs_deployed._adminui._layout._leftnavigation.__treeaction._jspService(__treeaction.java:318)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:35)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:295)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:260)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:137)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:353)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:25)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:78)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletFilter.doFilter(Log4jServletFilter.java:64)

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