SugarCRM has a pretty great API if you know how to poll it. Today I'm sharing two examples of where I've needed to poll SugarCRM's API with some sample jQuery code.
A jQuery autocompleter
If you're declaring an input box and wish to autocomplete it's results based on the results …
Category: SugarCRM Tagged: javascript jquery sugarcrm
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Odds are if you're customising SugarCRM, you will at some point need to add functionality to the records page. This article shows you a framework for creating actions on the UI, the API entrypoints to run your code and how to link it all together using SugarCRM's sidecar functionality.
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Read MoreOne issue that constantly re-occurs for me using SugarCRM is that certain knowledge is only stored in it's database. So say you want to revert to a previous version of Sugar and wish to obtain the Studio customisations you've done at that version, say two days ago, well your just …
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The tutorial shows you how to do two useful things in SugarCRM 7. Firstly, how to call actions when rows get updated in SugarCRM's recordlist and secondly, how to set information based on row data. The example I have here will essentially update the table colours based on a specific …
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Read MoreI use salt quite extensively to deploy SugarCRM installs and I wanted a scriptable way to setup the correct permissions for Sugar running on a linux box. This script is based on the Sugar documentation and this handy post here. Simply fill in your apache user details and the path …
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Read MoreThe new Sugar subpanels look great but they do take up quite a lot space, without any ability to remove Subpanels via studio I've had to come up with a few ways to hide them.
Note: Original Props go to Robin Larsson who wrote the `original <https://community.sugarcrm.com …
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Read MoreThis is the SugarCRM 7 equivalent to this post here, because Sugar has dropped the process record logic hook, we need to come up with a new solution.
Here's how you can add a new column to a list view, I have to admit this is one of the really …
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There doesn't appear to be a documented way to do this but in SugarCRM 7 this is how I've added actions to the listview. For this example it's showing how to add a button to an animal module, which adds the animal to a related circus event.
1. Adding the …
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Read MoreSay you have two modules in Sugar: Animals and Ringmasters and they aren't directly related via a standard relationship but they are related through some convoluted means. Now, imagine if you want to override the SugarCRM search to allow you to search for all Animals indirectly related to a Ringmaster …
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Read MoreBuilding modules in SugarCRM can cause you to create a boatload of unnecessary relationships, simply because it's convenient to do so. Maybe you'd have a relationship where A relates to B and B to C but you'd like to search for all A module records that relate to C. One …
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