Post originally written by avlasovsugar. Alex Vlasov is an experienced Sugar Developer and contractor that works on the SugarCRM Engineering platform team. In this post, Alex shares advice to Sugar Developers for preparing their Sugar customizations for…

You may have seen that that Sugar 7.8 has now been released ! We have introduced some important platform updates in this release. Have you read the developer release notes yet? Here are three additional and essential resources for you to use before you…

This post originally appeared on the SynoLab blog hosted by Synolia , an Elite SugarCRM Partner. Yann Bergès describes how you can use a relate filter with the Filter API. He also explores how Sugar does it as well as identifying a drawback to be considered…

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…

Important security changes in Sugar 7.8 As we near the release of Sugar 7.8, we wanted to update the Sugar Developer community on a couple of important security changes that are coming in this release. The oauth_token URL parameter is disabled by default…

To be honest, I do not get to sling code all that often anymore. But I do spend a lot of time thinking about software even when I have no real hand (or keyboard) in creating it. I also talk to people about software a lot - software design, solution architecture…

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…

Hey Sugar 7 Developers! I wanted to make sure the community is aware of our planned refactor of the Sugar 7 Record view in Sugar 7.8 . The main point of the refactor is to move the Record view header pane out of the scrollable DIV that it is inside today…