Deleting older emails is a common approach to reduce a Sugar instance storage footprint.In this post, I want to cover the following options available to delete emails prior to a given date.1 - Mass Update 2 - REST Endpoints 3 - Direct ...

One of the things I can't believe we still don't have 'Out of the box' access to in Sugar is the job_queue table.  The job_queue table is where sugar stores the queue of scheduled and submitted jobs that the cron job will run.&nb...

Ever since prepared queries appeared in Sugar it has made debugging queries a lot more challenging.  When you set your log level to INFO and collect the suspect queries you are presented with queries that look like thisSELECT meetings.id, meetin...

Each year, I receive a survey about my JavaScript and CSS habits, preferences, and knowledge. That data is then compiled into 2 reports: The State of JavaScript and The State of CSS. I don't think enough people are aware of these reports. So, I w...

A change is comin... Not just yet but tentatively for 11.0 (around April 2021), we plan to add a new admin module to manage and enforce CSP. We want to ensure that you are ready for the change and understand what a CSP is. A Content Securit...

Hello Sugar Developers! We want to make sure your customizations and integrations are ready for the Sugar Q1 2021 (10.3) release. So we're hosting a webinar just for you! In addition to details about the latest release, we will also be looking at...

Hello Sugar Developers! We have another release for you with new features and fixes! We are calling this one Sugar Q1 2021 (or Sugar 10.3.0). This release is for cloud customers only. Here are some of the new features and fixes for this release.&nbsp...

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 ...

Last week (9.28.2020 - 10.2.2020) members of the Product and Engineering teams set aside time to participate in SugarCRM's annual internal hack-a-thon called "Sprint Week". This year was a bit different than past Sprint Weeks in that we were ALL remo...

Even though nearly all modern API authentication specifications can be categorized into a few different types, every single one of them has nuances. Even authentication standards, like OAuth 2.0, have different grant types and have components of each...

In the next couple of weeks, we will be moving a few of our private Git repositories out of the SugarCRM Github organization to a new SugarCRM Developers Github organization. Nothing will change with the files or the directory structure, etc. All tha...

Here's a guest blog post from experienced Sugar Developer and active DevClub member André Lopes.

Hi there,

The Flex Relate field type (aka parent field) is pretty useful as everybody knows, but it has an important limitation: It doesn't support the out of the box the populate_list vardefs attribute. Even on version 10.0.1 that feature is missing as per some comments in methods format and setValue inside its JS controller…

Hello Sugar Developers!

We want to make sure your customizations and integrations are ready for the Sugar Q4 2020 release. So we're hosting a webinar just for you! In addition to details about the latest release, we will also be looking at topics that have been requested frequently since our last webinar.

What we will be covering:

Some of the big changes that are likely to impact you include the following:

• SugarBPM…

Hello Sugar Developers!

We have another release for you with new features and fixes! We are calling this one Sugar Q4 2020 (or Sugar 10.2.0). This release is for cloud customers only.

Here are some of the new features and fixes for this release. This is not an exhaustive list of everything we did for Sugar 10.2 - just the items that we thought would be important for a developer to take note of. 

• Studio and Module Builder…

Hello Sugar Developers!We want to make sure your customizations and integrations are ready for the Sugar Q3 2020 release. So we're hosting a webinar just for you! In addition to details about the latest release, we will also be lookin...

In Sugar Q1 2020 (10.0), we made some significant updates to our color palette. Seven LessJS variables have been removed. This has caused a small number of cases where there are issues with custom themes that relied on these variables. But, don'...

Hello Sugar Developers!We have another release ready for you with new features and fixes! We are calling this one Sugar Q2 2020 (or Sugar 10.0.0). This release is for both cloud and on-premise customers. In March, we conducted a webinar highlig...

Hello Sugar Developers!It's that time again - a new Release of Sugar is upon us. To ensure that you are ready for the Sugar Q2 2020 release, we're hosting another set of webinars just for you!What we will be coveringSome of the big changes t...

We have 4 different sets of servers on one of my SugarCRM Enterprise installs.  We also have 4 people who do development, QA or Admin work so it is vitally important that everyone is aware of what server they are on.  We all move among the...

Testing email notifications is something we find ourselves doing rather often while developing Sugar customizations. Ideally, while doing this, we don’t want to send out emails to recipients not involved in the test. While I usually manage to ...

Code CompletionI have finally gotten around to improving my development environment and I chose to start with code completion. I use phpStorm but I think everything here would apply to any editor out there. When Sugar went to the BeanFactory to inst...

Hello Sugar Developers!It's that time again - we have completed a new quarterly release. Sugar 9.3 (Winter '20) is a cloud release but the updates in this version will be available to on-premise customers in the upcoming Sugar 9.0 release this ...

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.lessAdd a post-install ...

Back in September of this year (2019), we held the Developer's Webinar for the 9.2 release of Sugar. During that presentation, I touched on how the Portal can be customized. Among the things illustrated in the webinar was adding a module to the Port...

It's that time again! We have held another quarterly webinar where we discussed all the big changes that Sugar Developers need to know about in our upcoming Winter '20 releases.In addition to details about the latest release, we also looked at ...