PM40429: UNABLE TO RESTORE PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF CONTENT ITEM

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Unable to restore previous versions of content items.
  
  Steps to recreate this issue is
  
  - Log into WCM (authoring Portlet is set as the landing page)
  
  - Navigate in authoring portlet to any library and any site
  area.
  - Select a random piece of content and select the "Read" button
  - Select the "Versions" button.
  - Select any of the item versions shown in the list.
  - Press the "Restore" or "Restore as Published" button.
  - (Optional Step), select a different path, workflow and/or
  authoring template
  - Press the "OK" button
  - Browser looks busy for about 1 second, then stops, remaining
  on same page, which appears to have not changed, no confirmation
  or error message shown.
  - Repeating selecting "OK" shows the same behavior.
  - Selecting "Cancel" goes back to the list of item versions.
  Selecting "Done" goes back to the item in "Read" mode.
  - Reviewing the item and content in general shows that no draft
  item has been created and the same item version originally in
  published state remains in place.
  
  Symptoms :- After enabling following traces:-
  com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.*=all:com.aptrix.*=all:com.presence
  .connect.*=all:com.ibm.workplace.wcm.services.workflow.*=all
  
  Two different types of NullPointerExceptions were shown in
  trace.log files:-
  
  1)
  
  
  [5/25/11 14:20:46:439 EST] 0000004c AbstractComma E   <Null
  Message>
                                   java.lang.NullPointerException
   at
  com.ibm.workplace.wcm.services.versioning.VersioningServiceImpl.
  updateRe
  storedNodePermissions(VersioningServiceImpl.java:3505)
  
  2) java.lang.NullPointerException at
  com.ibm.workplace.wcm.services
  .workflow.WorkflowServiceImpl.setStage(WorkflowServiceImpl.java:
  1923)
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Unable to restore previous versions of content items due to
  java.lang.NullPointerException.
  

Problem conclusion

• Code changed to check for null value before accessing it.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  LOTUS WEB CONT

• Fixed component ID

  5724I2900

Applicable component levels

• R700 PSY

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