Hi all

I've just discovered that the user profile page is no longer accessible on my system. It throws the error below.

This is an old DNN instance upgraded over time.

I've checked the DataType lists against a working 8.0.3 and as a result I changed the country control from this:

DotNetNuke.UI.WebControls.DNNCountryEditControl, DotNetNuke 

to this:

DotNetNuke.UI.WebControls.DnnCountryAutocompleteControl, DotNetNuke

But that didn't help.

I've also wiped and replaced the items in DesktopModules\Admin\ViewProfile\ with what comes in the 8.0.3 installer to be sure it's all good.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Regards
Rob

 

Error: My Profile is currently unavailable. DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.ProfilePropertyAccess.DisplayDataType(ProfilePropertyDefinition definition) at DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.ProfilePropertyAccess.GetRichValue(ProfilePropertyDefinition property, String formatString, CultureInfo formatProvider) at DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.ProfilePropertyAccess.GetProperty(String propertyName, String format, CultureInfo formatProvider, UserInfo accessingUser, Scope currentScope, Boolean& propertyNotFound) at DotNetNuke.Services.Tokens.BaseCustomTokenReplace.replacedTokenValue(String objectName, String propertyName, String format) at DotNetNuke.Services.Tokens.BaseTokenReplace.ReplaceTokens(String sourceText) at DotNetNuke.Services.Tokens.TokenReplace.ReplaceTokens(String sourceText) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.ViewProfile.ViewProfile. (EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

hmm.. as part of trying to resolve this I've found a bug in the registration process.

If one enables the country field in the registration form, then when a user views the form, the country field is pre-populated with the country.. possibly by browser locale or something.

If the user registers without modifying that country, then the profile table will be populated with the literal country name and not the country ID... and this is not correct.

Only if the user clicks into the country field, clears it and then begins typing and selects a suggested country, then the profile table will get the country ID and not the name.

So that's definitely a bug, but it doesn't appear to affect the issue I'm having. I'll continue with this.

Ok and now I can see the problem with my system

I don't know why this would be done during the upgrade but it will have wiped the biography datatype value of 490 and replaced it with 513, leaving all of the existing portals with the old value broken.

crazy stuff but thankfully I can fix it now.
Regards
ROb