During the Sugar 7 Developer training sessions, the attendees often asked for more code samples to get up to speed writing dashlets. This blog provides a good template that could be used when writing a dashlet that will pull data from an external source…

Post originally written by John Mertic. There was a discussion recently in Andrea Ayer's Sugar Adminstration Essentials class about previous layouts are stored in Studio when changing how a screen looks. You can access it on an View edit screen by clicking…

Post originally written by sugarraagaard. So you've seen what the REST API can do and you want more. In this recipe we'll be covering how to create your own REST endpoint. Our sample endpoint is going to go beyond the filter API and give us a list of…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. Sometimes the best way to learn something is to dive right in and to get hands on experience. While there are several documents on developing Models, Views, and Controllers for Sugar 7, the core developers wanted…

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…

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…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. We are pleased to announce the return of UnCon ! Sugar is more than just a CRM – it is also a platform where developers can build all sorts of custom widgets and integrations to popular 3rd party applications and…

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…