Annoying problem with the vSphere Web Client and the missing ‘Recent Tasks’ pane

So, I was just doing some basic admin tasks using the vSphere Web Client, and I accidentally closed the recent tasks pane at the bottom,

RecentTasksPane

that really threw me, I have never made that mistake before and it took me ages to work out how to get it back.
So if you are as dumb as me, or at least made the same mistake as I did, hopefully, this will help you out:

All you need to do is to reset the web client back to factory defaults, by clicking on the little arrow next to your login name, up in the top left of the page and select “Reset to Factory Defaults” you will have to log in again, and if you had moved the other objects around they will be reset too, but at least you get the recent tasks back

ResetWbeClientToDefaults

 

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Thanks to Daniele Murrau who also informed me that if you want to just add the ‘Recent Tasks’ or ‘Alarms’ pane back, without performing a full ‘Reset To Factory Defaults’ you can do so by clicking on the ‘Layout Settings’ option and putting a tick back in the radio button box, shown below:

Screen Shot 2016-08-04 at 10.30.27.png

Useful if you have made other layout changes that you want to preserve as well as adding the missing pane(s) back

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Author: Will Rodbard

I am a Principal Architect at VMware, and I have been here since 2011. I have spent over well 25 years in IT roles along with a smattering of other jobs throughout my life.

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  4. Thank you very much for sharing this, I ran into the similar problem and your post help me to fix it 🙂

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