Blank left side bar after logged in to Confluence
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Summary
Problem
Left side bar/ navigation pane is blank after logged in. Anonymous users are able to see the left side bar properly.

The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log
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2015-10-24 17:04:56,923 ERROR [http-nio-8090-exec-8] [[Standalone].[localhost].[/].[noop]] log Servlet.service() for servlet [noop] in context with path [] threw exception
com.google.template.soy.base.SoySyntaxException: In file discovery/integrationDiscovery.soy:8: Unrecognized function 'getProductText' (function call "getProductText('confluence.plugins.hipchat.integration.discovery.text.0')").
at com.google.template.soy.parsepasses.CheckFunctionCallsVisitor$CheckFunctionCallsExprVisitor.visitFunctionNode(CheckFunctionCallsVisitor.java:173)
Diagnosis
You have disabled a HipChat Integration plugin
Cause
HipChat integration plugin is not disabled properly. HipChat integration plugin consists of 4 different plugins in the Manage Add-Ons section and all of them needs to be disabled
Solution
Resolution
Disable all HipChat-related plugin. They are:
Atlassian Hipchat Integration Plugin
Atlassian Hipchat Integration Plugin Core
Confluence Hipchat Integration Plugin
Confluence HipChat Plugin
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