Adding an "older than x days" filter

Hello Demien,

Straight forward and simple way : You can do filter based on Date Create or Date Modified for all the modules by default.

Now if you want to tract any perticular event happen and when it was happen and then wants to do filering on that . Then you need to capture the date when the event happen.
Like , whenever the Opportunity is set to close won we will capture the date and save into additional field . And from that additional field you can perform search . And this will be date field so it will have all the necessary filter that you are looking for ( last X days or so.) . Also it will work for reports module .

Here is one example link that how you can capture the date event on any action using SugarCRM Advanced Workflow.

http://support.sugarcrm.com/Knowledge_Base/Advanced_Workflow/Capturing_the_Sales_Stage_When_an_Opportunity_Closes/ 

If you are using the CE edition of sugarcrm then you need to write logic hook to achieve this.

Thanks
Prashant
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Hi Prashant,

Thanks for your reply! Our customer's on Sugar Pro 7.9.x so no ProcessAuthor. We've captured the "last interaction date" with a logic hook, but our issue is to get the records for which this date is older than x days. 

I can filter "older than date dd/mm/yyyy", on "this month", "this year". 

But not "older than this month", or "older than this week". 

Ie the "reference date" cannot be relative AFAIK and this is what I am looking for

Hi Damien Pochon,

This is not available in stock Sugar, as you have observed.

My first thought on how I might address this would be to create a separate field that is updated regularly by a custom scheduler. This field would indicate a period of time corresponding to the reference date. I would then report on that field's value.

Hello Damien Pochon

You can follow the KB about "how to create a new type of field" to extend the Date field and add your new operator in the sugar widget. For the second step, to solve the report case, you can deal with that with a logic hook "after_ui_frame" which use SUGAR.util.doWhen to add the operator in the filter_defs['date'] = filter_defs['date'].concat(additionnalFilters) when it is define.

That's the "main" idea :-)

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for your reply. Interesting approach. I've just realised that in addition to the calculated date field we created, we might as well add an "age" field in days with is much easier to filter on!

It's a pity, though, that date manipulation is insufficient in stock sugar at the moment... 

Hi Cédric,

Interesting approach, I had not thought about enriching the date time field. I'll check with the team!

A bientôt !

Hi Damien Pochon,

There is a new filter operators like "next x days" or "last x days" for Date field in our last project. That was done with custom logic for filter-rows view and custom fixForFilter method in overridden class CustomSugarFieldDatetime which based on the operator in filter will add certain where condition for SugarQuery.

It will work in list and dashlets but not in reports though. 

Let me know if you need details.

I've added exactly this filter myself, and one to get exactly N days ago.  Here is a step by step guide.

Warning - this changes a couple of core files so you may need to make the changes again after any upgrade.

1. First add the language string to the reports module.

custom/extension/modules/Reports/ext/lang/en_us.lang.php

$mod_strings['LBL_BEFORE_N_DAYS'] = 'Before last # Days';
$mod_strings['LBL_N_DAYS_AGO'] = '# Days Ago';

2. In modules/Reports/templates/templates_modules_def_js.php add these lines

qualifiers[qualifiers.length] = {name:'tp_before_n_days',value:'<?php echo $mod_strings['LBL_BEFORE_N_DAYS']; ?>'};
qualifiers[qualifiers.length] = {name:'tp_n_days_ago',value:'<?php echo $mod_strings['LBL_N_DAYS_AGO']; ?>'};

3. Copy include/generic/SugarWidgets/SugarWidgetFielddatetime.php to custom/include/generic/SugarWidgets/SugarWidgetFielddatetime.php

Add these 2 functions to your new file - custom/include/generic/SugarWidgets/SugarWidgetFielddatetime.php

function queryFilterTP_before_n_days($layout_def)
{
    $days = $layout_def['input_name0'] - 1;

    $begin = $this->now()->get("-10 years")->get_day_begin();
    $end = $this->now()->get("-$days days")->get_day_begin();

    return $this->get_start_end_date_filter($layout_def, $begin, $end);
}

function queryFilterTP_n_days_ago($layout_def)
{
    $days = $layout_def['input_name0'];

    return $this->queryDay($layout_def, $this->now()->get("-$days day"));
}

4. Repair and rebuild.

I have tried this today and I am not been able to display the extra input to select datetime