don't open in drawer

Take a look at overriding the Contacts header menu file.

See this example:

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_8.3/User_Interface/MegaMenu/

One way would be to open new tab on the click by adding 'open window' => true. You may also need  to specify the full path in the route.

That's close.  The 'openwindow' option does work to open the url, but it opens a n entirely different window.  However, this isn't what I need.  I want to reuse the same window, just not open that view in a drawer.

Thanks, though! That's a good find!

That's close.  The 'openwindow' option does work to open the url, but it opens a n entirely different window.  However, this isn't what I need.  I want to reuse the same window, just not open that view in a drawer.

Thanks, though! That's a good find!

Hi Robert Cristof,

This is the default behavior throughout the system. If you really want to override this, you need to extend the create view controller. Look out for saveAndClose function in clients/base/views/create/create.js.

If you see the above screenshot (please ignore my weird highlighting), it checks if there is a drawer component available, if found, it will trigger the drawer close function which in turn returns to the same screen from where you open the drawer. Whereas, if you open the create link in new page, it doesn't append the drawer layout to the current layout components list because this action has not triggered from any other layout (triggered directly), hence else part get executed.

So, if you completely wants to override this behavior, you can extend the create view at application level in custom/clients/base/views/create/create.js and override this function to comment out the if condition and just keep the else part (navigate to currently created record). This would work for all the modules within the application.

({
    extendsFrom: 'CreateView',
    initialize: function(options) {
     this._super('initialize', [options]);
    },

    //overridden to navigate user to record view
    saveAndClose: function () {
        this.initiateSave(_.bind(function () {
            app.navigate(this.context, this.model);
        }, this));
    }
})

If you just want to override this for contacts module, extend the Contacts module create controller in custom/modules/Contacts/clients/base/views/create/create.js.

({
    extendsFrom: 'ContactsCreateView',
    initialize: function(options) {
     this._super('initialize', [options]);
    },

    //overridden to navigate user to record view
    saveAndClose: function () {
        this.initiateSave(_.bind(function () {
            app.navigate(this.context, this.model);
        }, this));
    },
})

Let us know if this helps.

Regards.