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Portlets are Showing "Portlet Consumer Error" in WebCenter Portal Pages, Log File Shows: The metadata for portlet binding portletNNNNNNNNNN was not found in MDS (Doc ID 3079853.1)

Last updated on APRIL 08, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle WebCenter Portal - Version 12.2.1.4.0 and later
Oracle WebCenter Portal for OCI - Version 12.2.1.4.0_24.6.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Portlets are Showing "Portlet Consumer Error" in WebCenter Portal Pages.

The WebCenter portal managed server logs show the following errors:



ERROR

Portlet Consumer Error



The logs show the following errors:

####<DATE-TIME> <Error> <oracle.portlet.binding> <HOST> <WC_Portal> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <USER> <> <> <> <[severity-value: 8] [rid: 0:3] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] > <BEA-000000> <An error has occurred for Portlet Binding portletNNNNNNNNNN.
     oracle.adf.model.portlet.binding.PortletBindingException: The metadata for portlet binding portlet2843349841 was not found in MDS.
     at oracle.adf.model.portlet.binding.PortletBinding._initModel(PortletBinding.java:545)
     at oracle.adf.model.portlet.binding.PortletBinding.initModel(PortletBinding.java:976)
     at oracle.adf.model.portlet.binding.PortletBinding.getPortletModel(PortletBinding.java:604)
     at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.portlet.PortletBase.getPortletModel(PortletBase.java:648)
...

Caused By: oracle.portlet.client.persistence.PersistenceNotFoundException: mdsId=/oracle/adf/portlet/scopedMD/[PORTAL_ID]/portlets/[PORTLET_INSTANCE_NAME].pxml not found
     at oracle.portlet.client.persistenceimpl.mds.MDSPersistenceContext.getInternal(MDSPersistenceContext.java:641)
     at oracle.portlet.client.persistenceimpl.mds.MDSPersistenceContext.get(MDSPersistenceContext.java:596)
     at oracle.portlet.client.beanimpl.persistence.PersistenceBeanFactory.getExisting(PersistenceBeanFactory.java:250)
     at oracle.portlet.client.beanimpl.persistence.PersistenceBeanContext.getExisting(PersistenceBeanContext.java:110)
     at oracle.portlet.client.containerimpl.PublicFactoryImpl.get(PublicFactoryImpl.java:301)
...

Caused By: oracle.mds.core.MetadataNotFoundException: MDS-00013: no metadata found for metadata object "/oracle/adf/portlet/scopedMD/[PORTAL_ID]/portlets/[PORTLET_INSTANCE_NAME].pxml"
     MDS-00201: PDocument not found in MetadataStore : [store-type=DBMetadataStore app-name=webcenter repository-name=mds-SpacesDS partition-name=webcenter]
     at oracle.mds.core.MetadataObject.getBaseMO(MetadataObject.java:1988)
     at oracle.mds.core.MDSSession.getBaseMO(MDSSession.java:6113)
     at oracle.mds.core.MDSSession.getBaseMO(MDSSession.java:6042)
     at oracle.mds.core.MDSSession.getMetadataObject(MDSSession.java:2457)
...

 

Attempting to edit the portal pages spins.

 

Cause

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