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…

Sugar Engineering is proud to announce the Beta release of the open source Sidecar Debugger Tools project! Sidecar Debugger Tools This project was developed as part of the recent Partner hack week where it was a crowd favorite. Not only is this a great…

The Sugar application requires that a number of directories be writable in order to properly function. The precise directories and minimum permissions needed are covered in the Sugar Install Guide . A common practice for Sugar Developers to work around…

Do you write unit tests for your Sugar customizations? Do you performance test your Sugar on-site deployments? Every developer knows they should be building unit tests and performance tests but sometimes it is just too hard to get started from nothing…

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…

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…

Have you checked out Sugar University lately? SugarCRM provides Hot Topic Webinars designed specifically for Sugar Developers. This is a great way to keep on top of how to take advantage of latest technology in Sugar and keep those development skills…

About TethrOn TethrOn is a mobile field sales and service enablement platform that has a number of different pre-built integrations to back-end systems. The team behind TethrOn recently decided to become a SugarCRM Technology Partner in order to provide…

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…

Global Partner Summit 2015 This year's SugarCRM Global Partner Summit took place over the course of 2 days last week in Cascais, Portugal. Partner Summit is an annual opportunity for SugarCRM and our valued business partners (Resellers, Technology partners…

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…

In this post by Jelle Vink , SugarCRM's Security Architect and resident Elasticsearch expert, offers an explanation of how the Sugar Job Scheduler and Job Queue affects Sugar 7's record indexing behavior. Cron.php Execution When cron.php is executed,…

A long established tradition within Engineering here at SugarCRM is something that we call "Hack Week". A couple times a year we fly our engineers from all over the world to our headquarters in Cupertino, CA for a week of fun, creativity, and some serious…

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…

Have you checked out the Current Opportunities at SugarCRM lately? We're hiring heavily today across all sorts of technical roles at Sugar - including an open position to work with me as a Developer Advocate for SugarCRM! What does a Sugar Developer Advocate…

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…

In a recent blog post by W-Systems , an Elite SugarCRM Partner, the W-Systems team shows a great example of how to create a custom field type in Sugar 7 that allows you to place specially formatted text within a view. This loadable module creates a new…

In Sugar 7.6, we added an awesome little undocumented feature that we're calling Sweet Spot . Try the matching shortcut key sequence below within a Sugar 7.6 window. OS Shortcut Mac OS X cmd+shift+space Windows ctrl+shift+space Linux ctrl+shift+space…

Sugar Developers! Want to get a head start on your SugarCon UnCon experience? The UnCon roundtable schedule and Github repository are now live! The UnCon roundtable schedule is currently preliminary. The final schedule gets set by the audience at the…

For Sugar 7.7 and later versions, you can access metadata from within the Sidecar clients using SUGAR.App.metadata.get() Many Sugar Developers are looking to build intelligent API integrations with Sugar that goes beyond Create-Read-Update-Delete (CRUD…

I want to let Sugar Developers know that we're really excited about the new format for UnCon this year! Part of the new format this year is to have the UnCon venue separated into two sections. When you first enter the space, we will have a lounge atmosphere…

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…

Have you discovered the new Sugar Community yet? The new Sugar Community launched about a year ago and right now it has over 4,500 conversations and over 3,000 members. It is a great resource for learning about Sugar and the names and faces behind Sugar…