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Bug 314918

Summary:	Error opening Target Platform State View from Help Page
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>
Component:	Doc	Assignee:	Curtis Windatt <curtis.windatt.public>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	curtis.windatt.public, darin.eclipse
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	3.6 RC4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Chris Goldthorpe

2010-05-28 13:28:13 EDT

eclipse.buildId=I20100527-1700
java.fullversion=J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Windows XP x86-32 j9vmwi3223ifx-20080811 (JIT enabled)

Help/Help Contents
Search for  "Target Platform State" (without the quotes) and open it.
Click on the link which opens the Target Platform State View

Expected result: the view opens
Actual Result: an error shows in the log

There was an error executing the command: org.eclipse.ui.views.showView(org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.TargetPlatformStateView)

org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionException: Part could not be initialized
	at org.eclipse.ui.handlers.ShowViewHandler.execute(ShowViewHandler.java:79)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.HandlerProxy.execute(HandlerProxy.java:293)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.Command.executeWithChecks(Command.java:476)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.ParameterizedCommand.executeWithChecks(ParameterizedCommand.java:508)
	at org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.ExecuteCommandAction.executeSerializedCommand(ExecuteCommandAction.java:115)

Other commands to open views from help work, for example on the page "Embedding  commands  in help". I think the problem is with the id used in the command, it should be 

org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.TargetPlatformState

instead of 

org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.TargetPlatformStateView

Comment 1 Curtis Windatt

2010-06-01 14:39:59 EDT

Fixed in HEAD.