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Sep 08, 2005 at 08:16 AM

Exception when using a renamed com.sap.portal.navigation.toolarea.par file

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Hi,

I would like to modify the toolarea of our SAP Enterprise Portal. Basically, I just want to move the tools to the right hand side.

<b>Problem Description</b>

According to several threads I found on sdn

- How to modify the header

- copy and rename par-file?

it should be fairly simple to modify the tool area.

- download com.sap.portal.navigation.toolarea.par from portal server

- import the downloaded par file into your NetWeaver Developer Studio

- Change the ToolAreaiView.jsp in project folder dist/PORTAL-INF/jsp

- Save changes

- Deploy project to the portal server ( >File >Export >Par File ><Name of your project> >Next >...)

- Remove the standard Tool Area iView from your Framework page

- Create a new iView from your uploaded par file (chose default component)

- Add new created iView to your Framework page

Done, you should see your customized tool area. Unfortunately I encounter a Portal Runtime Exception (Page could not create the iView). I did exactly as described above.

- I downloaded the com.sap.portal.navigation.toolarea.par.bak file from >System Administration >Support >Portal Runtime >Browse Deployment >ROOT >WEB-INF/deployment/temp.

- Extracted the com.sap.portal.navigation.toolarea.par after changing the downloaded files file extension to zip

- Imported the extracted par file into Netweaver Developer Studio under a new project name

- Found the ToolAreaiView.jsp in project folder dist/PORTAL-INF/jsp

- Did NO changes

- Exported the project into a par file and deployed the par file to the portal successfully.

- Removed the old Tool Area iView from the Framework page

- Created a new Tool Area iView from my uploaded par file (default component)

- Added the new created iView to the Framework page.

- I logged on again and instead of the Tool Area I see an error message

<i>Portal Runtime Error

An exception occurred while processing a request for :

iView : pcd:portal_content/sdm_Germany/de.sdm.kellermann.folders.home/de.sdm.kellermann.folders.coreobjects/default/frameworkPages/de.sdm.kellermann.coreobjects.frameworkpage/de.sdm.kellermann.iviews.toolarea

Component Name : null

Page could not create the iView.

See the details for the exception ID in the log file</i>

<b>Background information</b>

J2EE Engine: 6.40 PatchLevel 89291.313

Portal: 6.0.11.3.0

Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2

NWDS: 2.0.11

Any ideas what I did wrong? I appreaciate any kind of help.

Best regards,

Martin