In a recent blog post by UpCurve Cloud , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, Christian Wettre showed off a cool enhancement to the Sugar 7 Saved Report Chart dashlet. Very conveniently, they included a package you can download so you can easily install it and…

Here is a guest post from a couple members of the Sugar Developer community. Yann Berges and Cédric Mourizard from Synolia , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, share some insights on how to improve the quality of Elasticsearch results in Sugar. Elasticsearch…

Post originally written by tshubbard. In our previous "Hello World" dashlet post , we established what a minimal dashlet entailed. In these next post, we'll be building on those skills to create a more useful dashlet that takes advantage of Sugar 7 List…

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…

In a recent blog post by W-Systems , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, the W-Systems team shows a great example of how to create a custom field type in Sugar 7 that allows you to place specially formatted text within a view. This loadable module creates a new…

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 Joo Lee. Sugar 7 allows you to define your own view metadata for creating new custom layouts and views. In these custom view definitions, the correct use of the type and name attributes is essential when you want to reuse metadata…

If you've browsed the Sugar 7 JavaScript codebase much then you'll notice that we use Underscore.js all over the place. Use of _.each, _.bind, _.debounce, _.filter, and more are littered throughout the Sugar 7 codebase. It's not uncommon to see multiple…

There are certain parts of the Sugar 7 user interface that are always available to the user. For example, the Sugar Cube at the top left corner of both our mobile and web applications is always visible as an anchor that allows the user to return to their…

Post originally written by tshubbard. For Sugar Developers, the Dashboard and Dashlet framework provided in Sugar 7 really helps you to build slick reusable Dashlets that can be targeted for certain parts of the app or made globally available anywhere…

When it comes to customization, Sugar 7 is far away the best and most flexible CRM on the market. The Sugar framework empowers the developers to make heavy modifications in the user interface (UI) without touching the core of the product. Our customers…

Sugar 7 Dashlets As you may know Dashboards and Dashlets are some of Sugar 7's most popular front-end features. Customizable Dashboards empower users with the ability to customize the contextual intelligence that gets delivered to them by their CRM within…