What are Prepared Statements? Prepared Statements , also known as parameterized statements, is a database feature that allows the same or similar queries to be executed with more efficiency and greater security. It has also been a common Sugar platform…

Post originally written by mrussellsugarcrm. Sugar REST PHP Client A new open source library for working with Sugar 7's powerful REST API has just been published! You can view the library in our GitHub account here: https://github.com/sugarcrm/rest-php…

This post originally appeared on the SynoLab blog hosted by Synolia , an Elite SugarCRM Partner. Yann Bergès describes how you can use a relate filter with the Filter API. He also explores how Sugar does it as well as identifying a drawback to be considered…

This blog will be the first in a two part series on building Charts components for Sugar 7. This post is targeted at beginner to intermediate Sugar Developers who want to learn how to build their first Chart component. This post assumes some basic knowledge…

Here is another Francesca Shiekh guest post! She is a Sugar Developer from Wolfram Research . We had the need to notify the assigned user when an email was received that was related to a Case record. To make our application more flexible we extended this…

Here is a guest post from Hatim Alam from BHEA , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, and is a certified Sugar Developer Specialist. Hatim shares some ideas for getting creative use out of Sugar Notifications. Share your own ideas in comments below! In this post…

Here is another guest post from Shijin Krishna from BHEA , an Elite SugarCRM Partner! Notes is a common module used to track ad hoc information within Sugar. Sugar Enterprise customers that use the Customer Self-Service Portal will notice that comments…

Below is some details from Andreas Sandberg , Director of Engineering, at SugarCRM. Andreas is on his second tour of duty at SugarCRM. He first joined SugarCRM back in 2007 as an Engineering manager. He was also the Head of Engineering at Stitch prior…

Post originally written by tshubbard. In our previous "Hello World" dashlet post , we established what a minimal dashlet entailed. In these next post, we'll be building on those skills to create a more useful dashlet that takes advantage of Sugar 7 List…

In a previous post, we learned how to write JavaScript unit tests using Sugar 7's Jasmine framework. Today we will learn how to write PHP unit tests using Sugar 7's PHPUnit framework. If you do not have access to Sugar 7 unit-tests Github repository and…

If you were at UnCon in April 2015 then you know that one of our hottest topics was plans for a SugarCRM Mobile SDK. Since mobile devices and mobile use cases are such a key part of what Customer Relationship Management and Customer Experience is today…

Post originally written by Joo Lee. Sugar 7 allows you to define your own view metadata for creating new custom layouts and views. In these custom view definitions, the correct use of the type and name attributes is essential when you want to reuse metadata…

Post originally written by sugarraagaard. 1. Introduction So you have yourself in a bit of a bind, you need to get an existing API to do something different. Maybe you need more information on an Account record, or perhaps your custom module needs some…

If you create a Lead Form in Sugar, this Lead Form uses the entrypoint “WebToLeadCapture” with it’s full qualified web address e.g. http://myCRMserver/index.php?entryPoint=WebToLeadCapture . Using this generated form every visitor of your website is informed…