Enhance you SugarCRM edit views with filters

In my last article I showed you how can add grandparent relate fields to your custom modules. In this article I show you how you can use those fields to filter search popups on other relate fields.

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Add grandparent fields to your SugarCRM modules

When you build custom modules and you create one-to-many relations between them, you can put a link to the parent module in the various views. But what if that parent module has a one-to-many relation to yet another module? By default SugarCRM does not support adding links to grandparent modules on your views. This article shows you how to add them.

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SugarCRM many-to-one relations to standard modules

With the module builder you can create a one-to-many relation from a custom module to a standard module, but not the other way around. This article explains how you can create a these in code yourself.

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Beyond module builder in building a custom module

The Sugar developer guide is a very good starting point when you want to start customizing SugarCRM and when the module builder does not permit you to do so. Since I have struggled in the beginning to put some things into practice, I am gathering practical tips and pieces which I found at various places to enable others to benefit from my findings and as well for my personal reference.

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Build custom SugarCRM modules in Subversion

In this second tutorial about SugarCRM and Subversion, Sander Marechal explains how you can build version controlled custom modules that work together with the version controlled SugarCRM from the previous article.

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Keeping SugarCRM under Subversion control

Sander Marechal shows you how to keep SugarCRM itself under version control, how to deal with deployment and how to do upgrades in the face of customisations to the core code.

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Fixing one-to-many relationships in SugarCRM 5.1

There are four problems when you create a one-to-many relationship in the Module Builder: The Edit and Detail view do not properly contain the related fields in the child module, the related fields are not available in the List view, are not available in the subpanel and are not available on the Search panel. Here is how to fix all these issues.

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The SugarCRM cache directory demystified

The SugarCRM cache directory contains not just cache files but a couple of other type of files as well. This article explains what's inside the cache directory.

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Hiding the Short Cut menu

JavaScript code snippet for hiding the Shortcut menu when the screen renders

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Common Customization Samples and Tutorials

A series of common code-level customizations.

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Programmatically Hiding and Displaying Panels Based on the Value of A Drop Down in 5.1

In many cases it is desirable to hide or show certain fields on a form based on the value of a field. For example, if the account is a partner the form should show partnerish fields. The easiest way to do this is to create panels with information specific to each record type and then hide or show the panels based on the record type.

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Programmatically Hiding and Displaying Panels Based on the Value of a Drop Down

In many cases it is desirable to hide or show certain fields on a form based on the value of field. The easiest way to do this is to create panels with information specific to each record type and then hide or show the panels based on the record type.

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Custom Aging Field - The upgrade safe way

In this example we are going to do a custom aging field.

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