In last week's post on the Font Awesome 4.x upgrade in Sugar 7.6 we mentioned that Sugar Engineering has been putting together a compatibility package. This package can be installed into Sugar 7.6 instances to add Font Awesome 3.2.1 back. That package…

Getting 3rd party JavaScript into Sugar The most common UI integration point between Sugar and external applications is the trusty Sugar Dashlet. This is why we spend so much time talking about Dashlets here on the blog and at our Sugar Developer events…

What are Sugar Integration Building Blocks? This is a new effort to create an open source library of re-usable common components that can be easily adapted by developers interested in integrating applications with Sugar 7. This project is focused on the…

Here is a guest post from Shijin Krishna from BHEA , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, and active member of the Sugar Developer community. Are you interested in posting on the Sugar Developer Blog? Contact developers@sugarcrm.com with your idea. In this post…

Here is a guest post from a couple members of the Sugar Developer community. Yann Berges and Cédric Mourizard from Synolia , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, share some insights on how to improve the quality of Elasticsearch results in Sugar. Elasticsearch…

Sidecar and Backbone.js The Sidecar user interface framework is built on a variety of browser side technologies. Being proficient in these underlying technologies is important for any developer writing Sugar 7 user interface code. They key JavaScript…

This tutorial will cover the creation of new Jasmine unit tests for testing your Sugar 7 front end code. In order to follow this tutorial, you will need access to the Sugar 7 Unit Test repository. Make sure you have the latest code. If you do not have…

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…

If you've used Sugar 7.5 or earlier then you have probably noticed that it take a few moments after a record appears for all the subpanels to finish being populated with data. This was because each subpanel generated a separate round-trip HTTP transaction…

Engineering wanted to let you know about a CSS change coming in Sugar 7.6 which is planned for release before end of June. There has been an upgrade to the library we use for our icons called Font Awesome . We will be upgrading from Font Awesome version…