Manage custom configuration

Question

Hello everybody, 
 I'm facing a problem that most of you have already had. 
 In the cloud (or on premise instances), when I want to update a custom config value, I should deploy a package. This could be annoying when you want to do some tests or make it quickly. 
 I wondered if some of you have the idea of writing a custom page in order to manage the configuration values ? What could you propose ? 
 Many thanks and best regards, 
 Enes

Enes Saridogan · Accepted Answer

We had the exact same requirement and we, as part of Seven Tunes labs created a Config Manager package which exactly does what you need - we exported the package and provided details in our blog - check it out - https://seventunes.com/updating-sugarcrm-configuration-on-the-fly/ 
 The package follows exactly what Dennis has suggested - creates an Admin page which allows you to search/update config. But - I would suggest to use it carefully, maybe change the "DENY_LIST" to "ALLOW_LIST" so that someone doesn't update wrong configuration by mistake. Be extremely cautious if you're using it in production! I would suggest modifying the code to ALLOW_LIST for production uses. 
 We've also added a default password which should be sent for every update - that is presently hardcoded in the package, which could be moved to config_override or Admin dbconfig table. 
 
 Please let me know if you have any questions!

Enes Saridogan · Answer

Hi Enes, 
 The way I would approach this to update custom config values would be the following: 
 
 Create an admin panel to show & control the values: 
 
 https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_10.0/Architecture/Extensions/Administration/

List the current values of your custom config values:
 
 https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_10.0/Architecture/Configurator/#Retrieving_Settings

Create Input or Select fields where the Admin can change the values and store those using the Configurator class: 
 
 https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_10.0/Architecture/Configurator/#Creating_Updating_Settings

Please also note the Considerations at the end of the Configurator class article, that only longterm config changes should be used with that. For more dynamic config changes the Administration class allows to store those in the config table, so it depends a bit what you want to change and how often. 
 Hope that helps for an initial overview :) 
 Dennis