Post originally written by Jim Bartek. UPDATE October 3rd 2017 Removed references to compileSql() function which was deprecated and removed in Sugar 7.9. You have found yourself in a bind, and you need to query the database directly. There is no other…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. Welcome to the School of REST - our first installment in the Sugar 7 Cookbook Series! We've always believed that DATA belongs to you and it should always be accessible to you! With Sugar 7 we've added a completely…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. This is the final section of the School of Rest. We'll be covering filtering on relationships as well as Global Search, Favorites, and Deleting records. We've already created our Account "Burger Palace" in Part 1…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. This is part 2 of 3 of The School of REST. In Part 1 we covered creating our Account "Burger Palace" and using the filter API to get just the records we wanted. Today we'll cover retrieving records, creating our…

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…

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…

If you've browsed the Sugar 7 JavaScript codebase much then you'll notice that we use Underscore.js all over the place. Use of _.each, _.bind, _.debounce, _.filter, and more are littered throughout the Sugar 7 codebase. It's not uncommon to see multiple…

There are certain parts of the Sugar 7 user interface that are always available to the user. For example, the Sugar Cube at the top left corner of both our mobile and web applications is always visible as an anchor that allows the user to return to their…

When it comes to customization, Sugar 7 is far away the best and most flexible CRM on the market. The Sugar framework empowers the developers to make heavy modifications in the user interface (UI) without touching the core of the product. Our customers…

Post originally written by John Mertic. Editor's Note: This blog post comes from Bill Convis of SierraCRM, and talks about how his team worked with our top notch engineering team to find a way to add action menu items across multiple modules. Big thanks…

Someone recently asked Sugar Engineering the following question. Suppose I have a webpage or web app that I am accessing from a mobile device, e.g. Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android. Is it possible for me to create a link on that page into the SugarCRM…

Sugar 7 Dashlets As you may know Dashboards and Dashlets are some of Sugar 7's most popular front-end features. Customizable Dashboards empower users with the ability to customize the contextual intelligence that gets delivered to them by their CRM within…

Post originally written by John Mertic. I had this question come from a partner this week... Users can't maintain their two sessions of Sugar (One via the REST API, and the other their Sugar Instance) at the same time. Signing in to either one will always…

This article is aimed at beginning to intermediate SugarCRM developers who want to customize views in SugarCRM version 7. This does not go into detail about all the ins and out of creating custom views, changing metadata and handlebars, etc. This article…

I was recently asked how to change the values that get entered into the new record when a user copies an existing record. This post will discuss how to make a simple change to your module's record view in order to change how fields get prefilled into…

This article is aimed at beginning to intermediate SugarCRM developers who want to create custom filters in SugarCRM version 7. This does not cover the custom filters that users can create for themselves. Those are stored on a per-user basis and are not…

We often get asked how to extend the Record view in Sugar 7. The Record view in Sugar 7 is one of the more complex views in the application so extending it can be a little tricky. The examples below are based on Sugar 7.1.5. The first question I would…