• dashlet for contacts focus dashboard

    We have a custom view for contacts which we have set up with a controller and templates to show a read-only "report" for the contact. We added an action button to the record view to load the custom view. This is working OK. Now we would like to add…

  • I can't draw a simple polygon with leaflet in Dashlet SugarCRM

    Hi people. I'm trying integrate leaflet with SugarCRM in a Dashlet. Actually everything is ok with a simple map, and markers, but when I try to draw a simple polygon it doesn't work. It's strange because I tested the same code in a simple html outside…

  • How to build Chart layouts for Sugar 7

    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…

  • Using Script and CSS loading plug-ins for easy Sugar integrations

    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…

  • Faster Sugar integrations using Building Blocks

    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…

  • Creating a Dashlet for Sugar 7 List Views

    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…

  • Creating a "Hello World" Dashlet for Sugar 7

    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…

  • A common Sugar 7.x Dashlet Gotcha

    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…

  • Write a dashlet that uses an external data source: the Football World Cup dashlet

    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…