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…

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…

In our most recent set of security releases , we made some changes in Sugar that address input sanitization issues reported by a 3rd party security researcher. Conveniently, these issues can be addressed with the input validation and CSRF form authentication…

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…

Post originally written by dwheelz. Here is an important message from David Wheeler , a long time Software Engineer and Architect at SugarCRM, about using e-mail fields correctly. E-mail handling is core to CRM software. Almost everyone we know uses multiple…

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…

RESTful APIs have always been a big part of the Sugar application, as well as the most appropriate touchpoint for integrating with other enterprise systems. Unfortunately, for a long time they weren't tested especially appropriately. Traditionally, REST…

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…

Are you ready to build an integration with Sugar but not sure where to start? You've come to the right place! When you want to access or interact with information stored in Sugar, the REST API is a great place to start. In this tutorial, you'll learn…

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 mrussellsugarcrm. Sugar REST PHP Client A new open source library for working with Sugar 7's powerful REST API has just been published! You can view the library in our GitHub account here: https://github.com/sugarcrm/rest-php…

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…

This post originally appeared on the SynoLab blog hosted by Synolia , an Elite SugarCRM Partner. Yann Bergès describes how you can use a relate filter with the Filter API. He also explores how Sugar does it as well as identifying a drawback to be considered…

Important security changes in Sugar 7.8 As we near the release of Sugar 7.8, we wanted to update the Sugar Developer community on a couple of important security changes that are coming in this release. The oauth_token URL parameter is disabled by default…

At SugarCRM, we have been accelerating the rate at which we share technology with the Sugar Developer community. Back in June at UnCon , we shared more open source code examples and tools than ever before. In April, we announced Sucrose Charts and the…

At SugarCRM Engineering, open source is part of our DNA. We build Sugar on open source technology and open standards. We host and run our software on open source platforms in Sugar On-Demand. And all of our developers use open source tools for developing…

Have you checked out Sugar University lately? SugarCRM provides Hot Topic Webinars designed specifically for Sugar Developers. This is a great way to keep on top of how to take advantage of latest technology in Sugar and keep those development skills…

About TethrOn TethrOn is a mobile field sales and service enablement platform that has a number of different pre-built integrations to back-end systems. The team behind TethrOn recently decided to become a SugarCRM Technology Partner in order to provide…

If you were at UnCon in April 2015 then you know that one of our hottest topics was plans for a SugarCRM Mobile SDK. Since mobile devices and mobile use cases are such a key part of what Customer Relationship Management and Customer Experience is today…

If you've used Sugar 7.5 or earlier then you have probably noticed that it take a few moments after a record appears for all the subpanels to finish being populated with data. This was because each subpanel generated a separate round-trip HTTP transaction…

For Sugar 7.7 and later versions, you can access metadata from within the Sidecar clients using SUGAR.App.metadata.get() Many Sugar Developers are looking to build intelligent API integrations with Sugar that goes beyond Create-Read-Update-Delete (CRUD…

Post originally written by John Mertic. I had this question come from a partner this week... Users can't maintain their two sessions of Sugar (One via the REST API, and the other their Sugar Instance) at the same time. Signing in to either one will always…

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…

If you create a Lead Form in Sugar, this Lead Form uses the entrypoint “WebToLeadCapture” with it’s full qualified web address e.g. http://myCRMserver/index.php?entryPoint=WebToLeadCapture . Using this generated form every visitor of your website is informed…