After upgrade from 5.8.5 to 6.3.2 custom Global layout broken

[Deleted user]

Dear Community,

We have performed Confluence upgrade from 5.8.5 to 6.3.2 on one of our Confluence servers and now I am experiencing issue with broken custom Global layout. We are using this layout

{code}
## GLOBAL DECORATOR
## This decorator handles a global context, i.e. information which is independent of space.
## Supports modes: 'dashboard', 'userdir', 'rss'.

#set ($mode = $params.get("mode"))
#set ($context = $params.get("context"))
#set ($helper = $params.get("helper"))
#set ($infoPanelWidth = $params.get("infopanel-width"))
#set ($maxFavouritePages = "20") ## Change this value to increase the default number of favourite pages displayed on the Dashboard

#infoPanelInitFromParams()

#requireResourcesForContext("global")

<!-- GENERAL PAGE DECORATING BEGINS -->
#assistiveSkipLink("assistive.skiplink.to.dashboard.recent.updates" "dashboard-recently-updated")
<div class="pagebody">
#parse ( "/template/includes/actionerrors.vm" )

<div class="dashboard">
<div class="dashboard-section">
#if ($mode == "dashboard")
#parse ("/decorators/includes/dashboard-navigation.vm")
#requireResourcesForContext("dashboard")
#rssautodiscovery($action.rssDescriptor)
#permitSearchEngines()

<div class="dashboard-group full">
<div class="dashboard-item welcome-message wiki-content">
$action.welcomeMessage
</div>
#dashboard_renderGlobalActions("dashboardActionsId", ["system.dashboard"] )


</div>## left
<div class="dashboard-group full wiki-content">
<div class="columnLayout two-left-sidebar" data-layout="two-equal">
<div class="cell aside" data-type="normal">
#foreach ($webPanel in $webInterfaceManager.getDisplayableWebPanels("atl.dashboard.left", {}))
<div class="dashboard-item">
$!webPanel.getHtml($req.getParameterMap())
</div>
#end
</div>
<div class="cell normal" data-type="normal">
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{recently-updated-dashboard:showProfilePic=true}")
</div>
</div>
</div>## right
#else
#if ($params.get("suppress-default-navigation") != "true")
<content tag="content-navigation">
<div id="navigation" class="content-navigation">
<ul class="ajs-menu-bar">
#menuMacros_renderButton("system.${mode}.button")
</ul>
</div>
</content>
#end
<div class="dashboard-group $!mode">
$body
</div>
#end

## INFO PANEL FOR ANY PAGE
#if ($infoPanelRequired)
<div style="width: $infoPanelWidth" id="helptd">
#infoPanel(true true true true)
</div>
#end

</div><!-- .dashboard-section -->
</div><!-- .dashboard -->
</div>
#parse ( "/breadcrumbs.vm" )

<!-- GENERAL PAGE DECORATING ENDS -->
{code}

and are experiencing issues specifically for this div block 
{code}
<div class="cell aside" data-type="normal">
#foreach ($webPanel in $webInterfaceManager.getDisplayableWebPanels("atl.dashboard.left", {}))
<div class="dashboard-item">
$!webPanel.getHtml($req.getParameterMap())
</div>
#end
</div>
{code}

where it just shows blank space, whereas on 5.8.5 it showed Site spaces etc.

On Chrome inspect tool on 5.8.5 I can see a lot of stuff generated under this div block, whereas on 6.3.2 it just prints 
{code}
<div class="cell aside" data-type="normal">
</div>
{code}

Do you perhaps know if something has changed on the code on 6.3.2 version which have caused this to break? I would appreciate any help, thank you!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

6.3 has some significantly different structures to 5.8.

webInterfaceManager doesn't exist any more, I think you'll need to try confluenceWebInterfaceManager

[Deleted user]

Hi Nic,

Thank you for helping out.

I have tried to use confluenceWebInterfaceManager as below

#foreach ($webPanel in $confluenceWebInterfaceManager.getDisplayableWebPanels("atl.dashboard.left", {}))
<div class="dashboard-item">
$!webPanel.getHtml($req.getParameterMap())
</div>
#end

but still with no luck. Am I missing any parameters?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't know, I think you'd want to read the api for the exact calls it may be making.

[lamlvchen]

hey man, is your problem solved? i meet the same problem with you ,and i don't know how to solve it. if you had a solution please share with me.thank you!