I’m working on re-creating a SmartForms application for a client — which was already in progress when I took over for another engineer — when I bumped into the exception described in the the title. This application was deployed from another environment.

Where’s the problem?

Here’s the exception I saw when attempting to correct an action for calling a SmartObject:

When I checked the SmartObject, I found there was no method to call!

This application was copied from one environment into this one. It appears as though the stored procedure that powered the object was not created in advance of the K2 deployment.

Whenever deploying K2 objects from one environment to another, it’s important to ensure the data layer of the application (commonly comprised of relational database objects) has been moved in advance.

A quick peek at the SmartObject Services Tester confirms what we found when we looked at the SmartObject in Designer:

In summary, the error message is associated with a SmartObject with missing ServiceObject data. Although the SmartObject Services Tester throws an error because the method is missing, further investigation revealed the root cause to be a missing stored procedure.