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SugarCRM: Making Fields Required But Not Hidden
27 Jan, 2012
Posted by: Jon Whitcraft
Welcome to the first Jon’s Tips and Tricks for SugarCRM. In this post I’m going to cover how make fields required when other fields equal something specific. Now I know what you are going to say, “This is available in studio” and while it is, it will hide the field on the edit view... More »
HOWTO: Grab fields from a related record into your DetailView
26 Jan, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
Ran across a great forums post the other day, that is a common request I’ve seen before.
Hi All!
I have created some custom fields in the Leads Module.
When the Lead is converted, at least, I would like to have that custom Lead information show up on the Opportunity Module with the Lead data.... More »
HOWTO: Add custom Smarty plugins
25 Jan, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
We had a great question come up internally here at Sugar last week:
Is it possible to put custom smarty plugins in custom/include/Smarty/plugins/ and have smarty pick them up or do they need to be in include/Smarty/plugins/?
The answer here is yes! This was a new feature added in Sugar 6.3 and came... More »
What’s new in 6.4.0 — Database Layer Updates
24 Jan, 2012
Posted by: grael
SugarCRM 6.4.0 includes a new database layer that’s been drastically overhauled under the hood. This refactor is a big step in cleaning up the Sugar code base and will allow for future DB support to come at a lower development cost. The need to litter code with conditional statements that... More »
HOWTO: Disable the Mozilla Firefox ‘telemetry’ feature
23 Jan, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
Firefox 7 last year introduced a new feature you could opt-in to called ‘telemetry’, which logs your browser performance on your local machine and sends it back to Mozilla to help them make future versions faster. This is great in the spirit of open source, as you as a Firefox user are... More »
