I want to add button/option in action menu on record view

Without knowing your reasons for this requirement, I was wondering maybe you can look into using the 'Business Card' layout as a tab to include only the few fields you need?

I like Tony Romano's solution, a user who only needs a minimal view can keep the Business card open and close all other panels. The system remembers what panels you had open last time you opened that module's record view, so those who only need name and description can keep all the unnecessary panels closed.

You could also consider Role Based Views if some Roles only ever need a limited number of fields on their view.

FrancescaS

As for building a custom record view, check out Jerry Clark's blog post here:

https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/dev-club/b/dev-blog/posts/how-to-build-custom-record-views-in-sugar

Thanks for the mention Francesca Shiekh!

This is another article I wrote (a long, long time ago) on a couple different ways to add a button to the record view with custom code:

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_12.3/Cookbook/Adding_Buttons_to_the_Record_View/

Hope this helps!

Well, Its kind of custom requirement and required as it is. So even though your provided solution is good but still I need to stick with my requirements unfortunately.

Francesca Shiekh

Well, Followed this already and able to create a custom view,
On the other hand, was able to create a custom button using Studio's Action button option.

Now need to know how can I link both of the above together?

Jerry Clark,

Thanks for such a detailed article, I played with your code to understand how things work (As I am a newbie to Sugar),

SO I have another question, How to handle the Edit button dropdown and overall editing functionality on a record view?

So far I am able to show only 4 fields of my choice but also want to remove editing functionality and to have this view behave as a read-only view.

Hi Waqas,

Angel Magana Has a post here that may help you:

https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/dev-club/f/questions-answers/897/how-set-readonly-dynamically-in-record-js
https://gist.github.com/elchele/6afc297eddf20ef147cf

You may also choose to set 'readonly' => true in the metadata for each field in your view.