WinBox and "show columns" feature

RouterOS General
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Hi,

I’m testing new routerOs 3.0rc6 and I’ve noticied new “show columns” feature
on WinBox (and I think this was a very good addon on WinBox !)

How ever, when I exit from my winBox, I lost selected columns, and I must
to select my “show columns” again and again, every time I log out from WinBox.

There is a solution for it ?

Thank you very much.

winbox in V3Rx
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check if you by accident have not checked - so, winbox does not save settings (open windows etc) when you close the session. Other ways everything should be restored when you reopen winbox on that router you made changes

3

Hi!

when you say “Other ways”, do you mean close winbox with “X” icon (close window icon upper right) ?

thank you

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no, he meant - “please check if other winbox settings are saved, like window locations”

5

Hi,

while this thread is rather old, I have to report that the issue was not resolved and is pretty much denerving. I wonder if anyone else is not able to observe this behavior? I use loader 2.2.13 and I connect to our main router OS version 3.7. When I open queues, it opens window with following columns - #, empty column, Name, Target Adress, Rx Max Limit, Tx Max Limit, Packet Marks, empty columns.

So, first thing is - there are at least three useless columns in there - two empty, and packet mark - not needed that much here imo. So now I go to Show Columns menu section, and I remove Packet Marks columns, and add Rx Avg.Rate and Tx Avg.Rate ones. Two empty columns are stil in there …

Now my observations:

  1. When I close the window (queue one), and reopen it, everything is OK …
  2. When I close the session and reopen it, everything is OK, windows are at correct positions …
  3. When I close the queue window, exit the session and return back, invoke queue window, my selected columns are lost …

We have more admins, and sometimes simply someone closes the queue window and exits the session. It is a bit annoyning to reset columns I am interested in each time it happens …

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

PS: on the loader screen I have checked “Load Previous session”, so dunno what else I could to help our situation …

cheers,
-pekr-

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I agree that it is annoying to have to re-select all the columns you want shown. happens to me all the time too.

7

I just tested and it works as it should. Deselected some columns, clicked on EXIT, then loaded again with “Load Previous Session” checkbox, and they were as I left them. Tried also exiting with “X” and still columns were in the order I left them.

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you’re missing a critical step. close the window inside of winbox which you selected custom columns, THEN exit winbox. Now re-open winbox, open the window that you set the columns in and see if it’s the way you set it before.

9

still works

10

Same thing.
Open WinBox open bridge select column MTU close bridge window close WinBox, then again start Winbox open bridge window MTU not selected.
Tested couple times.
Best regards…

11

still doesn’t work

12

you sure that you have the latest winbox loader from 3.7, that RouterOS is 3.7 and that you cleared the cache and all winbox files?

13

I downloaded winbox loader from 3.7 router directly and it is the same as at your mt.com download section. Then I located Mikrotik directory in my user profile, deleted 3.7 dir and even winbox.cfg and let it redownload stuff once again. Still no change.

However, when I visually inspect config file (btw - why binary nowadays :slight_smile:, I can’t see load-previous-session parameter being saved? Is it in there? I can see only secure-mode, keep-pwd attributes in there. And also - where is such session data stored anaway? I mean - placement of windows, column configs, etc? Isn’t it stored on the server directly?

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you have to check that box exclusively, so previous session is loaded. Otherwise it will go default path and save no settings what so ever.

15

I tried this new Winbox with 2.9.46 router and it won’t work. It reports error: Could not get index: fatal error!

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please read normis post where it says something like that: Latest Winbox from 3.7 routeros and 3.7 RouterOS installed on the router. o rin next step you wil be asking other features from 3.x version in 2.9.x version?

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normis, the winbox save setting is not works all the time, some time it saves all the checked columns and some time it’s not and I’m sure about it but don’t know why!

18

as far as we have tested windox save settings (load previous session) it works without any problems.

so, install routeros 3.9
on clean system download winbox.exe and run it. there should be no problems with this feature.

i myself is using winbox through wine on ubuntu hardy heron without any problems.

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I am not asking that, I just pointed out that latest Winbox does not work at all with older MT’s. That is serious problem as it is certain that one would not go to latest MT just like that, especially if has large and complex network.

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this has not been proved true. please clarify what exact version didn’t work.

we use latest version of winbox to manage all of our network devices, many of which are older ones.