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…

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…

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…