Dashboard tabs are not shown due to IndexOutOfBoundsException error
Symptoms
The Confluence dashboard shows an error and none of the tabs are shown. Usually, this error only occurs to one or a specific number of users. Here's the screenshot for the error:
The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:
2012-07-26 11:30:29,914 ERROR [http-8088-4] [renderer.v2.components.MacroRendererComponent] processMacro Unexpected error formatting macro: recently-updated-dashboard
-- url: /dashboard.action | userName: admin | referer: http://localhost:8042 | action: dashboard
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: index (0) must be less than size (0)
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkElementIndex(Preconditions.java:301)
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkElementIndex(Preconditions.java:280)
at com.google.common.collect.EmptyImmutableList.get(EmptyImmutableList.java:106)
at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.macros.dashboard.SpaceCategoryTab.getSpaceFilter(SpaceCategoryTab.java:102)
at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.macros.dashboard.SpaceCategoryTab.getQueryParameters(SpaceCategoryTab.java:69)
at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.macros.dashboard.RecentlyUpdatedContentMacro.execute(RecentlyUpdatedContentMacro.java:85)
at com.atlassian.renderer.v2.macro.ResourceAwareMacroDecorator.execute(ResourceAwareMacroDecorator.java:51)
at com.atlassian.renderer.v2.components.MacroRendererComponent.executeMacro(MacroRendererComponent.java:203)
at com.atlassian.renderer.v2.components.MacroRendererComponent.processMacro(MacroRendererComponent.java:169)
at com.atlassian.renderer.v2.components.MacroRendererComponent.makeMacro(MacroRendererComponent.java:67)
....Cause
This error is most probably occurred after removing some contents (e.g. pages or spaces), however, we are still unclear why exactly this error is thrown.
Workaround
Log into Confluence as a user whose dashboard has this error and then manually enter this URL on your browser: <confluence-url>/dashboard.action?updatesSelectedTab=all
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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