Here is another guest post from Shijin Krishna from BHEA Technologies . When a user logs into Sugar 7, an OAuth access token (with a 1 hour timeout by default) and a refresh token (with a 2 week timeout by default) are returned. When the access token…

This blog will be the first in a two part series on building Charts components for Sugar 7. This post is targeted at beginner to intermediate Sugar Developers who want to learn how to build their first Chart component. This post assumes some basic knowledge…

In our last post we covered the basics of adding a custom chart layout. Today's post will build on that example to cover some of the more advanced configurations that are possible using charts in Sugar. Like the previous post, this is targeted at a beginner…

Upgrading our Backbone Have you done some Sidecar programming lately? Then you have been using Backbone. Backbone is the err... backbone of Sidecar. It provides all the base MVC classes which are extended by Sidecar to create the Sugar 7 UI. For example…

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…

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…

Here is another guest post from Shijin Krishna from BHEA , an Elite SugarCRM Partner! Notes is a common module used to track ad hoc information within Sugar. Sugar Enterprise customers that use the Customer Self-Service Portal will notice that comments…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Post originally written by tshubbard. For Sugar Developers, the Dashboard and Dashlet framework provided in Sugar 7 really helps you to build slick reusable Dashlets that can be targeted for certain parts of the app or made globally available anywhere…

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…

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…

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…

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…