Name Should Not Be Empty Error when trying to run any filter

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Symptoms

  • Does not affect all users

  • Might be affecting all web browsers the affected user tried

A stack trace is thrown:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Stack Trace: [hide] com.atlassian.jira.util.dbc.Assertions$BlankStringArgumentException: name should not be empty! at com.atlassian.jira.util.dbc.Assertions.notBlank(Assertions.java:115) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.util.navigator.IssueNavigatorType.getTypeFromString(IssueNavigatorType.java:109) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.util.navigator.IssueNavigatorType.getFromCookie(IssueNavigatorType.java:42) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.IssueNavigator.getNavigatorType(IssueNavigator.java:1871) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.IssueNavigator.doExecute(IssueNavigator.java:205)

Cause

The browser's cache is corrupted.

Resolution

Clear the Web Browser's cache:

Updated on April 1, 2025

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