Post originally written by Jesse.If you want to use namespaces following the PSR-0 standard for your custom code, it is now possible with the SugarAutoLoader in sugar7. Now you don't have to insert require statements all over the place.require_once(...

Post originally written by Jesse.When you work with something everyday, eliminating tedious and repetitive tasks not only improves your productivity but also helps your sanity. With Sugar, there are certain things we as developers are constantly doi...

Post originally written by John Mertic.Editor's Note: This blog post comes from Bill Convis of SierraCRM, and talks about how his team worked with our top notch engineering team to find a way to add action menu items across multiple modules. Big...

During the Sugar 7 Developer training sessions, the attendees often asked for more code samples to get up to speed writing dashlets. This blog provides a good template that could be used when writing a dashlet that will pull data from an external so...

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 on...

Post originally written by John Mertic.There was a discussion recently in Andrea Ayer's Sugar Adminstration Essentials class about previous layouts are stored in Studio when changing how a screen looks. You can access it on an View edit screen by cl...

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...

I was recently asked how to change the values that get entered into the new record when a user copies an existing record.This post will discuss how to make a simple change to your module's record view in order to change how fields get prefilled ...

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

Post originally written by Jim Bartek.UPDATE October 3rd 2017Removed 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 ...