On May 7th, we hosted a valuable session on Metadata Best Practices with our own Distinguished Engineer Alexey Klimko . During this session, Alexey shared findings from recent engineering research into our SugarCloud and highlighted opportunities where…

In October, we announced our transition to a semi-annual release cadence, which has been well received across the board. After further consideration to further enhance consistency across the Sugar suite, we're adopting a new standardized versioning convention…

On February 5th, we introduced the SugarCRM PHP REST Client , a powerful tool built by own Mike Russell . The PHP REST Client is widely used in our internal applications to interact with SugarCRM. Mike led the session and shared several examples of successful…

On December 4th, we held an insightful session on deduplication techniques , a critical topic for any successful SugarCRM implementation. The session was led by Rafa and Matt, with valuable contributions from the community. Session Takeaways Before…

Hello Sugar Developers! It’s time for the May session of our online Developer Office Hours hosted by subject matter experts from SugarCRM and the Sugar community. This session is dedicated to Preparing for the Sugar Developer exam. Please bring in…

On April 3rd, we held our monthly office hours session on Sugar mobile SDK development (session 1 of 2). Our guest expert was Andrew Zhukovsky , long time Sugar engineer and now Mobile Software Engineer here at SugarCRM, he has dedicated some of his…

Hello Sugar Developers! It’s time for the April edition of our online Developer Office Hours hosted by subject matter experts from SugarCRM and the Sugar community. This session is dedicated to Sugar Mobile SDK Development - Session 1 of 2, please…

Hello Sugar Developers! It’s time for the March session of our online Developer Office Hours hosted by subject matter experts from SugarCRM and the Sugar community. This session is dedicated to Advanced Reporting with Sugar, please bring in your questions…

This month we met to discuss how to use SugarCloud sandboxes provided through Demo Builder and the SugarLabs team. Session Highlights On-Boarding & Developer Policies We began the session by discussing the process of on-boarding as a Sugar partner…

It’s time for the September session of our online Developer Office Hours hosted by technical subject matter experts from SugarCRM and the Sugar community. You don't have to be a developer to join! You need only an interest in configuring and customizing…

May '23 Office Hours Recap Our May office hours focused on Sugar Professional to Enterprise conversions and strategies for upgrading from old to the latest Sugar versions. Session Highlights We kicked off the session with a good discussion about…

When users can upload arbitrary files to an application, it poses a considerable security risk when those files are stored on the file system. For instance, a user might unknowingly upload a file containing an executable script by a malicious source,…

October Office Hours Recap Our October Developer Office Hours session was centered on the long-awaited UI/UX Redesign coming in January 2023’s Sugar 12.3 release. It was a fantastic opportunity to share all there is to know about the new UI/UX and walk…

September Office Hours Recap Our second ever session was held on September 7th and was centered on the topic of Sugar Batch Jobs. We picked this topic after polling the Dev Club and this was Sugar Batch Jobs was the winner! A great topic since it's…

Hello Sugar Developers! It's time for the September session of our online Developer Office Hours hosted by Rafael Fernandes and subject matter experts from SugarCRM and the Sugar community. In this session we will cover many aspect of Sugar Batch…

Each year, I receive a survey about my JavaScript and CSS habits, preferences, and knowledge. That data is then compiled into 2 reports: The State of JavaScript and The State of CSS . I don't think enough people are aware of these reports. So, I wanted…

In the next couple of weeks, we will be moving a few of our private Git repositories out of the SugarCRM Github organization to a new SugarCRM Developers Github organization. Nothing will change with the files or the directory structure, etc. All that…

The 'idm_mode' config setting was moved out of config.php and into the database. It's now necessary to update the config table to disable this setting for a local backup. Instructions updated below. Those who have been around a while will know that SugarCRM…

Testing email notifications is something we find ourselves doing rather often while developing Sugar customizations. Ideally, while doing this, we don’t want to send out emails to recipients not involved in the test. While I usually manage to follow this…

On October 28, 2019, we conducted a webinar on the topic of How to deploy code to SugarCloud using Module Loader . In that presentation, we demonstrated a Module Loadable Package that would do 3 things: Modify the UI via custom.less Add a post-install…

Hello Sugar Developers! It's that time again - a new Release of Sugar is upon us. To ensure that you are ready for the Sugar Q2 2020 release, we're hosting another set of webinars just for you! What we will be covering Some of the big changes that are…

Code Completion I have finally gotten around to improving my development environment and I chose to start with code completion. I use phpStorm but I think everything here would apply to any editor out there. When Sugar went to the BeanFactory to instantiate…

Back in September of this year (2019), we held the Developer's Webinar for the 9.2 release of Sugar . During that presentation, I touched on how the Portal can be customized. Among the things illustrated in the webinar was adding a module to the Portal…

Note: This content was originally posted on Upsert's blog on October 31, 2019. Have you ever wanted to create a custom route in Sugar that allows you to create, display, and edit a subset of a module's fields? Well, you're in luck! In this post we will…

In case you missed it, here's the recording! Recording: Webinar: How to deploy code to SugarCloud using Module Loader The Module Loader is one of the most useful tools available to a SugarCloud developer when customizing Sugar. It is the safest (and only…