Get record ID in _headerModuleList.tpl (CE)

With which version do you work?

In CE resp versions < 7 you do not have a "#" in the URL.

In versions >= 7 you have "#" in the URL but no _headerModuleList.tpl

It would help to know what you are trying to achieve.

In the meantime take a look at this page by Angel Magana, it is a little older but still valid as far as I know:

Angel's Blog: SugarCRM Reference: Dissecting the NavBar 

And this support document:

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_8.1/User_Interface/MegaMenu/ 

FrancescaS

Hi Francesca, thank you for the reply and just wanted to say I learned a lot from your other posts!

I'm using Community Edition 6.5, so unfortunately there's no ./clients/base/layouts/header/header.php

I'm trying to customize the top header based on the department chosen by the user. So after the user clicks on department X the system will set a cookie and keep showing a custom header related to that department until the visitor chooses a different department.

I can set and read the cookie in _headerModuleList.tpl when the user clicks on a specific department, the problem is tricky because on the department detail view I set the cookie further down the code, so on the department detail view page itself the Nav Menu will not be customized.. 

Hope it's not too confusing. So If I could read the module name + record ID in headerModuleList I could customize the Nav Bar right away without waiting to set the cookie.

Hi Francesca, thank you for the reply and just wanted to say I learned a lot from your other posts!

I'm using Community Edition 6.5, so unfortunately there's no ./clients/base/layouts/header/header.php

I'm trying to customize the top header based on the department chosen by the user. So after the user clicks on department X the system will set a cookie and keep showing a custom header related to that department until the visitor chooses a different department.

I can set and read the cookie in _headerModuleList.tpl when the user clicks on a specific department, the problem is tricky because on the department detail view I set the cookie further down the code, so on the department detail view page itself the Nav Menu will not be customized.. 

Hope it's not too confusing. So If I could read the module name + record ID in headerModuleList I could customize the Nav Bar right away without waiting to set the cookie.

I see, sorry, I've not looked at pre-sidecar Sugar in years and I'm afraid I can't help you here. Good luck.

Thank you André, I'll look into it!

thank you, I'll post an update if I figure it out

The file "themes/Sugar5/tpls/_headerModuleList.tpl" is called inside method "displayHeader" of class SugarView (the super class for views), so you would need to modify directally this method (BE CAREFULL!!!!) in order to fetch/assign the variables "$this->module" and "$this->bean->id" and finally edit that tpl file in order to render such tpl variables.

Regards

Hi André

I modified displayHeader() as per your advice and definitely got further.

But it's strange, no matter which module I open up it always shows the same module name: "Home" 

app string is: ViewAjaxUI Object
(
[view_object_map] => Array
(
[remap_action] => ajaxui
)

[module] => Home
[action] => ajaxui
[bean] =>

[ss] => Sugar_Smarty Object

It's like it's completely disconnected from what's happening below the header.

I echoed out the whole contents of the object instantiated from the SugarView class but there's no mention of the bean name and record id.

Do you think there's something else I can try?

You were right, we can get the module/record ID we're currently on by fetching it from                 $recentRecords smarty variable.

As a test you can put the following in somewhere at the top of _headerModuleList.tpl:

                {$recentRecords|@print_r}

This shows the recently visited records and the very first value is actually the page we're on so it's the same thing.