On-Boarding for Devs

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What steps should a partner or customer follow in order to on-board themselves or a colleague as a new Sugar Developer to ensure they have access to all necessary resources to customize Sugar?

Access to Sugar On-Site software downloads and mobile development tools is controlled using the Download Software permission. Read below to learn more about how to provide your new developers this permission

Prerequisite:
- You need to work for a current Sugar Customer or Sugar Partner with an active Sugar subscription.
- Access is only provided to authorized persons who are associated with these organizations
Step 1: Register with Sugar Club
Step 2: Enable Download Software access for the Developer
Step 3: Visit Download Manager or Developer Builds space to access Sugar code
Step 4: Visit the Mobile Tools portal to access Mobile SDK and MACS

Setup

In order to get access to the Sugar code, you need to be either a SugarCRM customer or a partner. To learn more about our partner program and to apply, please check out our web site.

Partners also get access to Sugar cloud instances that they can use to quickly get started. See the Partner Portal for more information about accessing the Sugar cloud.

If you are doing code development on Sugar, you can download an On-Site version of the Sugar application using Download Manager via sugarcrm.com.
If you need access to a Sugar cloud development build in order to target a Sugar cloud release, then you can access those in the Sugar cloud developer builds space.
Want to get started developing quickly? Use our Vagrant set up instructions! If you want to set up a full LAMP or MAMP stack on your own, you can follow our On-Site Installation guide or the OSX development environment setup guide

First API Call

Web Services APIs are the fastest way to get started with custom Sugar development. The Sugar API documentation is built into every Sugar instance, including Sugar's REST API.

Check out the Sugar Developer Guide for more details on how to access Sugar REST APIs and to get started using them. You can also check out the School of REST blog series and the Intro to the Sugar REST API tutorial.

Making your first API call to Sugar is as easy as 1, 2, 3:

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