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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Hey Sugar 7 Developers! I wanted to make sure the community is aware of our planned refactor of the Sugar 7 Record view in Sugar 7.8 . The main point of the refactor is to move the Record view header pane out of the scrollable DIV that it is inside today…

This would be a good post to bookmark! Francesca, one of our Sugar Community members, has a great post on the Sugar Community where she lists some of her favorite Sugar 7 resources and asks the community to list their own. It has become one of our most…

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…

This article is aimed at beginning to intermediate SugarCRM developers who want to customize views in SugarCRM version 7. This does not go into detail about all the ins and out of creating custom views, changing metadata and handlebars, etc. This article…

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…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. Sometimes the best way to learn something is to dive right in and to get hands on experience. While there are several documents on developing Models, Views, and Controllers for Sugar 7, the core developers wanted…

This article is aimed at beginning to intermediate SugarCRM developers who want to create custom filters in SugarCRM version 7. This does not cover the custom filters that users can create for themselves. Those are stored on a per-user basis and are not…

We often get asked how to extend the Record view in Sugar 7. The Record view in Sugar 7 is one of the more complex views in the application so extending it can be a little tricky. The examples below are based on Sugar 7.1.5. The first question I would…