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Server Console Admin Interface

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Eddie Schenk

Can we have an option to make the old (pre v11) admin (server console) interface the default rather than this new style?

I know we can manually select "Server" "User" and "IP" from the legacy options but how long will they remain?

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    Grant
    Development
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    Hi Eddie,

    I'll be honest, it's extremely unlikely we will add options to bring back the old interface as the default.  The legacy interface is receiving no further development, and will likely be removed completely at some point.  We will be putting warning banners on those dialogs in an upcoming minor release to ensure administrators know that those dialogs are deprecated, and that we don't recommend administrators use them.  We've left them there primarily to ease the transition to the newer UI.

     

    We didn't decide on these changes lightly, but they were necessary to to allow us to move forward with many of our planned changes and improvements.  The old dialogs and interfaces are very inflexible in terms of our ability to make changes, and rely on technology that Microsoft stopped supporting long ago.   It's been holding back our ability to make UI improvements for some time.

     

    The newer, web-based UI is far more flexible, scalable, and easy to improve.  While it's far from perfect in our first release, we can and will make changes and improvements quickly.  I welcome any feedback you have as to what works well, and where we should make improvements.  We'll make sure those comments and suggestions get incorporated into future releases.

     

    Our team worked to make sure that, at a bare minimum, we achieved feature parity with the old UI for our first release.  However, I expect there will be legitimate cases where the old UI was considered superior for some use cases (the file manager is still a work-in-progress, for example).  We will listen and work with customers to improve on those use cases as quickly as possible.  

     

  • Eddie Schenk

    Hi Grant,

    Thanks for the detailed reply, as I work for a software company with a team of developers I can understand your position, can you at least make the Admin screen remember the options I used the last time I logged in?

    I open the screen in the morning and close it when I leave at night as I look at the running log files out of the corner of my eye pretty much all the time. You give options to customise the view by selecting what columns you want but this resets when the console is closed, the same is true of the Interface tab, it takes up a chunk of the screen, why would you need that open by default?

    The old UI was quicker than the new, but I guess you will optimize that as the UI improvements come through.

     

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  • Grant
    Development

    Hi Eddie,

     

    Thanks for the feedback.

    Yes, we are planning on making table change settings persistent.  We've actually already done that with several of the tables (logging included), but the persistence currently only works in a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE/Edge).  The embedded browser for local console access appears to have a bug that results in the persistence getting lost on console GUI restart.

    We are working on fixes here for a future release.

     

    NOTE: You can turn off the Interfaces split window from the View menu.  That change will be remebered between UI restarts.

     

    Thanks for the speed feedback. It's something we are constantly working on, and I expect it to get better over time.

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  • Eddie Schenk

    >>NOTE: You can turn off the Interfaces split window from the View menu. That change will be remebered between UI restarts.<<

    I have done this a number of times Grant and every time I restart the console the interfaces tabs come back, so it is not remembering it for me.

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  • Grant
    Development
    • Edited

    Ok, that likely means there is a permissions problem writing to the uisettings.xml file.

     

    Take a look at:

    C:\ProgramData\Cerberus LLC\Cerberus FTP Server\uisettings.xml

    Make sure the account you are launching the Cerberus UI with has permissions to write to that file.

     

    The specific tag that controls displaying the right-hand interfaces page is:

     

    <hideRightPane>false</hideRightPane>
     
    Set it to true to hide it.
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  • Eddie Schenk

    Hi Grant,

    That sorted it thanks, the accont was in the local server administrators group and authenicated users also had read/write permissions already so that should have bene enough.

    I added my account in specifically and that fixed it, I could not find a line <hideRightPane>false</hideRightPane> anywhere is that file.

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  • Grant
    Development

    The hideRightPane is a new tag in 11.0.  If Cerberus can now write to the uisettings.xml file then you should see it after a successful save.

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  • Eddie Schenk

    It has reverted back to showing the Interfaces and the tag hideRightPane is not present, my account which runs the console has read/write access to the file so I edited it manually and added the line <hideRightPane>true</hideRightPane> and it is now working correctly.

    Cheers
    Eddie

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