Let’s talk about Upsert - not to be confused with our company of the same name. Upsert API endpoints are an incredible time saver. Have your integrations become cumbersome ? Much like that 90’s band Seven Mary Three, we want to avoid this scenario from…

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…

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…

Impatience is a virtue Larry Wall (the inventor of Perl ) is credited with identifying the three great virtues of a programmer: "laziness, impatience, and hubris." These virtues are usually shared with a wink. For example, a programmer's "laziness" will…

Hi, my name is Julian Haresco and I am a Software Engineering Intern at SugarCRM. I am going to be a rising senior at Purdue University majoring in Computer Science with a focus in Machine Learning and Software Engineering. This summer, I was given the…

SugarCRM strives to be the "No-Touch" CRM . One of the most important steps in making this vision a reality is to integrate Sugar with systems that customers uses to engage with organizations. For example, if a customer has been recently complaining about…

Hello! I'm Justin Kuehlthau ( @justinkuehlthau ), Director of the Sugar Practice at Technology Advisors ( Technology Advisors, Inc. ). This was my 8th SugarCon and this year I was lucky enough to be selected as a Sugar Scholar! I learned a lot about the…

You’ve been asking for it. We’ve been listening. We're improving our support of OAuth 2.0 standards by adding support for RFC 6750 bearer tokens in the Sugar Fall ‘18 release. So what's changing? You’ll still authenticate to get the access token the same…

Please don’t hate me. It’s not really my fault. I am sorry to say that every single Sugar developer needs to care about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data privacy in general. It is a sign of the times and part of the interrelationship…

In Sugar 8 / Spring '18, Sugar administrators can now configure API platforms using the Administration panel. The Platform extension is still available if you want to register a custom API platform as part of a Module Loadable Package. Sugar uses platforms…

In Sugar 8 / Spring '18, Sugar administrators can now configure API platforms using the Administration panel. The Platform extension is still available if you want to register a custom API platform as part of a Module Loadable Package. If you have a REST…

What is the Sugar Metadata API? As you probably know, Sugar metadata encompasses the settings, data model ( Vardefs ), and visual layouts ( Viewdefs ) used by the Sugar application. The majority of changes made to Sugar using Sugar Studio, Module Builder…

What is the Input Validation Framework? The Input Validation Framework is a centralized security framework used to validate that external input is provided in the expected format. Validating user input is critical because it is the basis for generated…

Post originally written by Jim Bartek. UPDATE October 3rd 2017 Removed references to compileSql() function which was deprecated and removed in Sugar 7.9. You have found yourself in a bind, and you need to query the database directly. There is no other…

Sugar v11 REST API In order to support some cool new dashboard features , we made some enhancements to our Dashboard APIs in the Fall '17 release. So we added a new REST API version, v11, in that release in order to ensure clients and integrations that…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. Welcome to the School of REST - our first installment in the Sugar 7 Cookbook Series! We've always believed that DATA belongs to you and it should always be accessible to you! With Sugar 7 we've added a completely…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. This is the final section of the School of Rest. We'll be covering filtering on relationships as well as Global Search, Favorites, and Deleting records. We've already created our Account "Burger Palace" in Part 1…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. This is part 2 of 3 of The School of REST. In Part 1 we covered creating our Account "Burger Palace" and using the filter API to get just the records we wanted. Today we'll cover retrieving records, creating our…

Post originally written by sugarraagaard. 1. Introduction So you have yourself in a bit of a bind, you need to get an existing API to do something different. Maybe you need more information on an Account record, or perhaps your custom module needs some…

Post originally written by sugarraagaard. So you've seen what the REST API can do and you want more. In this recipe we'll be covering how to create your own REST endpoint. Our sample endpoint is going to go beyond the filter API and give us a list of…