How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Francesca Shiekh — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:23:00 GMT

I am using it in v7.5.1.0 so it should work.
Make sure you pass the module name, not the class and make the adjustment above to get back a list.

FrancescaS

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

sonesay inthavong — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:33:00 GMT

Will this work for SuiteCRM 7.2 also? I've been trying with your method so far but its always returning false

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Kiddyty Kiddyty — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:09:00 GMT

Hi , I have a similar situation but i dont quite understand what you have shared above. For my situation , I need to get the fields from Points_management -"balance_points" and set it as default for the field in Transaction so each transaction i will be able to calculate and update back the Points_management. I dont know how to retrieve and update back the related modules vice versa. I really need help as I am new to SugarCRM. Thank you everyone.

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

jlabuelo — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:00:00 GMT

Thanks a lot for the answer!!!

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Francesca Shiekh — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:24:00 GMT

Note that my function from the blog returns an array when it finds the relationship:
return(array($def['name'], $m1));
or
return(array($def['name'], $m2));

The first element is the relationship name, the second the rhs module, just in case you need it. You get "Array" if you echo the result because it's returning an array, if you try a var_dump instead you'll see it's components.

Try
list($rel_microchip, $m) = getRelationshipByModulesgetRelacion("R2_Solicitud","R2_Microchip");

HTH
FrancescaS

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

jlabuelo — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:37:00 GMT

Hi there

I have a similar problem like you are managing in this post. I have created two custom modules with a one to one relationship

R2_Microchip has a one to one relathichip with R2_Solicitud. I am builing a button in the DetailView of the R2_Solicitud module and this button calls a controller function that needs to take the related R2_Microchip and work with it.

To do so i need to know the relationship between these two modules to be able to call it.

I have found in this forum a post that points to this blog

http://developer.sugarcrm.com/2013/05/29/programmatically-find-the-name-of-the-relationship-between-...

However in my code, when I call this function this way

$rel_microchip = getRelationshipByModulesgetRelacion("R2_Solicitud","R2_Microchip");

$bean_solicitud->load_relationship($rel_microchip);
$chip_bean=implode($bean_solicitud->$rel_microchip->get());

I get this error message in the log file
Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /opt/lampp/htdocs/sugarcrm/data/SugarBean.php on line 975

Notice: Array to string conversion in /opt/lampp/htdocs/sugarcrm/custom/modules/R2_Solicitud/Funciones_Solicitud.php on line 75

Notice: Undefined property: R2_Solicitud::$Array in /opt/lampp/htdocs/sugarcrm/custom/modules/R2_Solicitud/Funciones_Solicitud.php on line 75

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /opt/lampp/htdocs/sugarcrm/custom/modules/R2_Solicitud/Funciones_Solicitud.php on line 75
(Line 75 is this one in my code $chip_bean=implode($bean_solicitud->$rel_microchip->get());)

As the function is returning just the word "Array".
If this function does not work.... How can I know how to call the relationships between two custom modules like
$bean_solicitud->load_relationship($rel_microchip);??????

Thanks a lot!!

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

luthien luthien — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:49:00 GMT

Yes, perfect. It works! Thanks for all!
Cheers

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Francesca Shiekh — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:12:00 GMT

If you are creating a new invoice in the script then you can do so just populating the supplier id in the invoice bean populating the bean:

//create a new bean
$invoice=new AOS_Invoices();
//for each object populate it
$invoice->field_name = "field_value";
//relate the invoice to the supplier
$invoice->supplier_id = $supplier_id //check the naming of the relate field's id
$invoice->save();

Francesca

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

luthien luthien — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:18:00 GMT

Ok, perfect, I found the problem. My relationship was empty, I thought it was Many to Many, but the field value I was searching for was in a related field and the relationship was actually One To One.
Now I can retrieve all I need! :D
Last question. How do I fill related fields in my Invoice with values I just retrieved?
I have no problem on populate simple text fields, but is not the same for related fields.

Thank you, you are saving my life!

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Francesca Shiekh — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 22:10:00 GMT

Try an echo after you get the relationship and die(); to see what you can see...

$order_to_account_relationship = getRelationshipByModules ('Cproj_order_management01', 'Accounts');
echo("relationship = " . $order_to_account_relationship);die();

There may be a problem fetching the relationship....

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

luthien luthien — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:59:00 GMT

Ok that's a good news.
I'm in troubles with 'load_relationship()' function now..
As you told me, I called that function on

$bean->load_relationship($order_to_account_relationship);

but I receive a PHP Fatal Error:

Call to a member function load_relationship() on a non-object in /../custom/modules/Cproj_order_management01/converToInvoice.php on line 95, referer: ..=Cproj_order_management01&action=DetailView&record=420d92b1-1cde-725b-b6ef-522725fbaf91

I'm not understanding what's the matter. I tried to declarate a new object for $bean but it didin't solve the problem.
This is the whole code I wrote since now.

require_once('modules/Cproj_order_management01/Cproj_order_management01.php');
require_once('modules/AOS_Invoices/AOS_Invoices.php');
require_once('modules/Accounts/Account.php');
require_once('modules/a122_Suppliers/a122_Suppliers.php');
require_once('modules/Relationships/Relationship.php');

global $timedate;
   //your function
function getRelationshipByModules ($m1, $m2)
{
global $db,$dictionary,$beanList;
$rel = new Relationship;
if($rel_info = $rel->retrieve_by_sides($m1, $m2, $db)){
$bean = BeanFactory::getBean($m1);
$rel_name = $rel_info['relationship_name'];
foreach($bean->field_defs as $field=>$def){
 if(isset($def['relationship']) && $def['relationship']==$rel_name) {
  return(array($def['name'], $m1));
 }
}
} elseif($rel_info = $rel->retrieve_by_sides($m2, $m1, $db)){
$bean = BeanFactory::getBean($m2);
$rel_name = $rel_info['relationship_name'];
foreach($bean->field_defs as $field=>$def){
 if(isset($def['relationship']) && $def['relationship']==$rel_name) {   
               return(array($def['name'], $m2));
 }
   }
}
return(FALSE);
}
$invoice=new AOS_Invoices();
//$om=new Cproj_order_management01();

$suppliers=array();

$order_to_account_relationship = getRelationshipByModules ('Cproj_order_management01', 'Accounts');
$account_to_supplier_relationship = getRelationshipByModules('Accounts', 'a122_Suppliers');
$bean->load_relationship($order_to_account_relationship);
foreach($bean->$order_to_account_relationship->getBeans() as $account){
$account->load_relationship($account_to_supplier_relationship);
foreach($account->$account_to_supplier_relationship->getBeans() as $supplier){
  
if(!array_key_exists($supplier->id, $suppliers))  
      $suppliers[ $supplier->id] = $supplier->name;
}
}
//when It works I'm gonna use that fields to fill my invoice fields
[......]

$invoice->save();

ob_clean();
header('Location: index.php?module=AOS_Invoices&action=EditView&record='.$invoice->id);

I'm going crazy. Thanks for your help, again.

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Francesca Shiekh — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:56:00 GMT

That is the correct way to refer to custom fields, yes. They are part of the bean once retrieved.
So $account->field_name_c for custom fields is perfect.

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

luthien luthien — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:28:00 GMT

Hi, thank you so much for your reply, it really helped me a lot.
My relationships are One to Many and Many to Many, something like
Order Management <<--->> Account <<---> Supplier
so I guess I have to retrieve records using the second solution you told me.
I can delete relationships and use only related fields, at the least for the One to Many relationships (I don't actually need the 'Many' part)..
I have just one question: almost all the fields I need to fill in Invoice, are custom. How can I refer those fields? They are columns of the _cstm tables on DB and I don't know how to grab them.
I was wondering if can I retrieve a record with

$account->retrieve($bean->account_id);

and refer a single fields as

$account->field_name;

$account->field_name_c; //for a custom field

Thank you so much for your support.
Cheers.

RE: How do you autopopulate a related field in custom module from a related field of another module?

Francesca Shiekh — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:55:00 GMT

Cristina,
How many Accounts are related to your OrderManagement record and how many Suppliers are related to an Account? Are these records linked via a relate field or a relationship?

If they are just relate fields the Account on the OrderManagement can be retrieved using the bean. If $bean is your Order Management bean, and account_id is the relate field for Account on that bean.

$account = new Account();
$account->retrieve($bean->account_id);

Now $account is the bean with all the Account information.
In turn if Supplier is a relate field on Account and supplier_id is the relate field for Supplier on that bean:

$supplier = new Supplier();
$supplier->retrieve($account->supplier_id);

If instead you have multiple Accounts on an OrderManangement and/or multiple Suppliers on an Account and want to retrieve them all you can get related beans using the relationship name as described by Jeff Bickart: http://developer.sugarcrm.com/2012/03/23/howto-using-the-bean-instead-of-sql-all-the-time/

I always find getting the right relationship name a bit tricky so I created a function that given two modules returns the relationship name:
http://developer.sugarcrm.com/2013/05/29/programmatically-find-the-name-of-the-relationship-between-...

I personally keep this, and other such functions I created, in a utilities folder for reuse but you can also simply include it in the script you are writing.

So you can do something like (note, I'm guessing your module names).
(assuming you have $bean = your current Order_Management bean)

include_once('<your path to my function>/getRelashionshipByModules.php'); $suppliers = array();
$order_to_account_relationship = getRelationshipByModules ('Order_Management', 'Accounts');
$account_to_supplier_relationship = getRelationshipByModules('Account', 'Suppliers');
$bean->load_relationship($order_to_account_relationship);
//loop through the Accounts linked to the Order
foreach($bean->$order_to_account_relationship->getBeans() as $account){
    //loop through the suppliers for this account
    $account->load_relationship($account_to_supplier_relationship);
    foreach($account->$account_to_supplier_relationship->getBeans as $supplier){        //check for duplicated by id (the key of the array)        //if you don't already have this supplier in your list, add it.
       if(!array_key_exists($supplier->id, $suppliers)) $suppliers[ $supplier->id] = $supplier->name;
   }
}
//the array $suppliers now contains all your suppliers with key the id of the record and value the name of the supplier.

Note, the code above has not been tested, it's just to give you some ideas.
Spero che questa risposta ti sia d'aiuto.

HTH
FrancescaS