Change the fields appear in RecordView and EditView

Question

Dear Sugar Community,

I would like to differentiate the fields appear in RecordView with the fileds in the EditView ( after pressing the "Edit" button). Moreover I would like to keep showing in EditView only few fields of the Record view.

I tried customizing the custom/<module>/metadata/ editviewdefs.php, with no success.

What do you suggest?

I use version 8 of SugarCRM

Alexandros Ntalagiannis · Accepted Answer

You don't want to work in layouts, you want to work in views custom/modules/<module>/clients/base/ views /create/create.php if your original module does not have a view for the create.php just copy the record.php (which is the default view if there is no create.php) and modify that.