Is there a way to customize the AlertView Controller?

Question

Hello folks, 
 does someone know a way to extend the alert view controller? 
 There is already a registered bug regarding this issue: https://portal.sugarondemand.com/index.php#supp_Bugs/bf747ba0-04db-11e7-9c6a-d4bed9b70c64 Taking a look at the code (Sugar 10.0.2), the problematic point seems to be the init function in sidecar/src/view/alert.js. There it does look up a series of properties in the ViewManager to find the controller class. One example: 
 ViewManager.views[Utils.capitalize(SUGAR.App.config.platform) + 'AlertView']; 
 So unfortunately it does not additionally check for ... + 'CustomAlertView' which would probably solve the issue (quick test via js debugger). 
 Also i don't see a way to modify/extend/hookup the s idecar/src/view/alert.js or sidecar/src/view/alert-view.js 
 Best regards

Christian Pfeiffer · Accepted Answer

You can write your own javascript in custom/include/javascript and augment the alert, by providing your own code for the functions that you want to override: 
 app . augment ( 'alert' ,{ /** * Override your own functions here */ }); 
 Once done, include the new file in jsgroups and rebuild the js grouping files in Admin->Repair.

Christian Pfeiffer · Answer

Hi Neeraja P , 
 thanks for the answer. I did not know about app.augment before and it seemed like a good start. But to me it looked like it overrides the whole app.alert feature with what i pass which i do not want. I wanted to add another alert-level and a new template (hbs) file to allow for other alerts like one with more than two buttons. 
 The main problem was that i could not register the custom controller under custom/clients/base/views/alert/alert.js the usual way as i described earlier. 
 After some try and error, i could set the view class of the alert feature like this with a jsgroups file and use the normal controller style like for every other extension under custom/clients/base/. 
 (function (app) {
 app.events.on('app:init', function () {
 app.alert.klass = app.utils.extendClass(
 app.view.views,
 app.view.views.BaseAlertView,
 'BaseCustomAlertView', {
 // Custom Controller
 initialize: function(options) {
 this._super('initialize', [options])

 this.LEVEL = _.extend(this.LEVEL, {
 CUSTOM_LEVEL: 'custom_level', // add custom/
 });
 },
 _getAlertProps: function (options) {
 var alertProps = this._super('_getAlertProps', [options]);
 
 // add handle for custom level
 }
 }
 )
 })
})(SUGAR.App);