Sugar's Single Page Architecture Sugar relies on a single page architecture (SPA) for the Sidecar framework. But when a user navigates across the Sugar application (for example, when switching to another Sugar module), while the page is not refreshed…

There are so many possible approaches for integrating with Sugar that selecting the best one can be tricky. When deciding to add new components into the Sugar user interface, the number of possibilities to consider is dizzying. Should I build a new component…

What is a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)? A CSRF is a type of exploit that a malicious website or attacker could employ to have a user send unauthorized commands to a website or application. It is a type of confused deputy attack against a user's web…

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…

UPDATE December 28, 2015 During Sugar 7.7 upgrade, the upgrader will identify existing create-actions view/layout customizations and automatically migrate them to create view/layout. This is a best effort migration that follows the two steps listed near…