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  • Upsert as explained by "Upsert"

    Jerry Clark
    Jerry Clark
    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 ...
    • 9 Nov 2020
  • Sprint Week 2020 Recap!

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen
    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...
    • 7 Oct 2020
  • API Authentication Primer

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen
    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...
    • 30 Sep 2020
  • Sugar Dev Tools Github Repository Changes

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen
    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...
    • 23 Sep 2020
  • Introducing populate_list in Flex Relate (parent) fields

    André Lopes
    André Lopes

    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…

    • 11 Sep 2020
  • Nearly everything you need to know about the Q4 2020 Release

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen

    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. 

    …
    • 19 Aug 2020
  • Adding Custom Color Variables to the Sugar Theme

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen
    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'...
    • 8 Jun 2020
  • Nearly everything you need to know about the Q2 2020 Release

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen
    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...
    • 7 Apr 2020
  • Don't miss the Sugar Q2 2020 Developer Webinars!

    Michael Shaheen
    Michael Shaheen
    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...
    • 5 Mar 2020
  • Visually mark your Dev, QA and Production servers

    Kenneth Brill
    Kenneth Brill
    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...
    • 23 Feb 2020
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