Search administer tab problem

Question

I currently have a problem with the Search Settings on the Administer Tab of the Portal Design-time Pages part of my application. It has worked previously but at present when the Search settings link is hit (if I need to change the page in which the Basic search is shown) then it wil no longer give me access and says that it has been remoevd, no longer available or I don't have access to it. How do I restore this page?

Answer 1

What version of portal are you using, i am presuming you are on 9.0.2.
The deletion of the results page which was selected in the search settings screen is most likely the cause of the problems you are seeing. When the search settings screen is being rendered it is encountering an error as the page no longer exists and the settings screen can not continue to be rendered. This was a known problem in 9.0.2 and has not been fixed in a later release.
If you have access to the portal schema via sqlplus, you can use an API to reset the search results page to an existing page and then you will be able to get back into the search settings.
Follow these steps
- determine the page id and page group id of an existing search results page
- you can either do this by querying the tables or navigating to the actual page. In the latter case, when on the actual page the the url will contain a parameter '_pageurl' which will contain the page and page group ids
The page id is the 1st number, the page group id is the 2nd number and if there is a 3rd number it is the tab reference
i.e If the parameter is pageid=6,873,6874, the page group id is 873 and the page id is 6
- once the ids are known log into the portal via sqlplus and run this snippet of code, replacing the ids 6 with your ids.
declare
l_results_page_id number := 6;
l_results_page_siteid number := 6;
begin
wwpre_api_value.set_value_as_number(
p_path => 'oracle.portal.search',
p_name => 'searchresultpageid',
p_level_type => 'S',
p_level_name => null,
p_value => l_results_page_id
wwpre_api_value.set_value_as_number(
p_path => 'oracle.portal.search',
p_name => 'searchresultpagesiteid',
p_level_type => 'S',
p_level_name => null,
p_value => l_results_page_siteid
commit;
end;
- this will update the setting for the results page and the search settings screen should be able to be acessed now.