Post originally written by avlasovsugar. Alex Vlasov is an experienced Sugar Developer and contractor that works on the SugarCRM Engineering platform team. In this post, Alex shares advice to Sugar Developers for preparing their Sugar customizations for…

Sugar's Single Page Architecture Sugar relies on a single page architecture (SPA) for the Sidecar framework. But when a user navigates across the Sugar application (for example, when switching to another Sugar module), while the page is not refreshed…

Post originally written by Vadzim Ramanenka. Sugar Performance Engineer Vadzim Ramanenka shares some tips for profiling Sugar code using our newly launched SugarCRM XHProf Viewer open source project. Profiling Sugar softly Whenever you encounter that…

This post originally appeared on the SynoLab blog hosted by Synolia , an Elite SugarCRM Partner. This post describes how to extend the new Sugar CLI framework to add commands that allow Sugar Administrators to monitor the Sugar e-mail queue. Since the…

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…

Sugar and older versions of PHP The latest version of PHP that Sugar 6.5 supported was PHP 5.3 which was released back in 2009. That is a long time ago folks. A sizable portion of the Sugar Developer community was in grade school back when PHP 5.3 was…

There are so many possible approaches for integrating with Sugar that selecting the best one can be tricky. When deciding to add new components into the Sugar user interface, the number of possibilities to consider is dizzying. Should I build a new component…

To coincide with the release of Sugar 7.7, the Engineering team has released updated versions of Unit Tests and Performance tools. Requesting access to Sugar Test Tools Sugar Test Tools are in private Github repositories within the SugarCRM Github organization…

Subpanel Creep The Subpanels section is where you find related records for the current displayed Sugar record. This is a vital feature because it allows a user to get a unified view of all the CRM records related to a particular record. Who are the Contacts…

This post is a follow up on a question we posed on the Sugar Dev Club Community . The "Rebuild Minified JS Files" action is used to rebuild the contents of the jssource directory. We are considering removing this particular action from the UI because…

Based on Sugar Developer community feedback, we have an additional update about the CreateActionsView changes in Sugar 7.7 . CreateActions migration script added to Sugar 7.7 Upgrader During Sugar 7.7 upgrade, the upgrader will identify existing create…

What is a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)? A CSRF is a type of exploit that a malicious website or attacker could employ to have a user send unauthorized commands to a website or application. It is a type of confused deputy attack against a user's web…

Below is some details from Andreas Sandberg , Director of Engineering, at SugarCRM. Andreas is on his second tour of duty at SugarCRM. He first joined SugarCRM back in 2007 as an Engineering manager. He was also the Head of Engineering at Stitch prior…

UPDATE December 28, 2015 During Sugar 7.7 upgrade, the upgrader will identify existing create-actions view/layout customizations and automatically migrate them to create view/layout. This is a best effort migration that follows the two steps listed near…