Hello everyone!  This is the beginning in hopefully a long series of videos that will explore the various APIs in SugarCRM.

John Mertic, a dev on SugarCRM’s core engineering team, walks us through creating a module and also the talks about how to begin to extend the functionality of the modules.

I hope you enjoy!

Module Builder Tour from SugarCRMCasts on Vimeo.

If you have any comments or questions, please let me know.

It took me longer than I wanted it too, but I got Activity and Ratings into the Search Results.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that I haven’t added “SORT” to either column yet.  It’s a bit tricky, but I can do it.  I figured though that I should post these changes though to see how you like them.

Let me know what you think!

Hey everyone, I’m going to be doing an interview with John Mertic tomorrow.  He’s the author of The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM and has recently spoke at a few different conferences, including the DC PHP Conference.

We’re going to be talking about Module Build and a bit of the API. The interview is going to be recorded and posted, hopefully by the end of the week.  We had technical difficulties earlier, so hopefully no more, and we’ll have a cool video to post soon.

Post your comments and questions about module builder here and I’ll ask him!

Download the Sugar 5.5 RC 4
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The Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise editions are available to preview online.
Preview Sugar 5.5 RC 4 Online

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View the 5.5 RC 4 Release Notes for information about what has changed in 5.5 RC 4. The 5.5 Release Notes for each edition is available in the Documentation pages. After selecting an edition, click the “5.5″ tab to view the 5.5 Release Notes.

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There’s a lot of discussion on the topic of Open Source collaboration of SugarCRM and on SugarForge.  There’s a lot that you and I want to see happen and we’re each in a place to affect it. I think the right way to go about it, is to make several, minor, agile changes until the end result is what we really want.

Of course, this doesn’t play well with my need for instant gratification to have large sweeping changes.  Alas, I will set that aside and do what I can.

Ok, let’s start with SugarForge… the signal to noise ratio is pretty poor, meaning – it’s hard to find active projects.

Last night I added a feature under the project rating that allows you to nominate a project for removal.  You must be logged in, in order to cast your vote.  I will tally up the votes and start working on cleaning up the stale and dead projects.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

The Sugar Community Edition 5.5 Release Candidate 3 is now available to download

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Note: We plan on providing upgrade files from the Sugar 5.5 Release Candidate 3 to Sugar 5.5 GA.

View the 5.5 RC 2 Release Notes for information about what has changed in 5.5 RC 3. For a full listing of what issues were fixed in Sugar 5.5 RC 3, use the Bug Tracker.

If you encounter any issues, please help us by submitting bugs in the Bug Tracker. Please be sure to select “5.5.0-RC3″ for the “Found in Release” field.

For customers, the Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise Release Candidate 3 files will be available to download shortly as well. Look for the announcement in the Customer forums this week.

Please also share with us your feedback and comments within the Sugar 5.5 forums.