Addressing Subpanel Creep in Sugar 7.7
Subpanel Creep The Subpanels section is where you find related records for the current displayed Sugar record. This is a vital feature because it allows a user to get a unified view of all the CRM...
View ArticleAdding a viewed status to Notes Module
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...
View ArticleHandling of JavaScript files in Sugar 7.7
This post is a follow up on a question we posed on the Sugar Developer Community. The “Rebuild Minified JS Files” action is used to rebuild the contents of the jssource directory. We are considering...
View ArticleIntegrating to Sugar using a custom drawer action
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...
View ArticlePrepare for the Backbone.js upgrade in Sugar 7.8
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...
View ArticleHow to add a client idle timeout to Sugar 7.x
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...
View ArticleHow to build Chart layouts for Sugar 7
This blog will 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...
View ArticleHow to build Chart Layouts for Sugar 7 – Part 2
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...
View ArticleUsing e-mail fields correctly in Sugar
Here is an important message from David Wheeler, a long time Software Engineer and Architect at SugarCRM, about using e-mail fields correctly. E-mail handling is core to CRM software. Almost everyone...
View ArticleGet your hot hands on the Sugar Mobile SDK!
Greg Khanlarov, Director of Mobile Development, is so excited about the launch of the new Sugar Mobile SDK that he is speechless! If you are coming to SugarCon, make sure you get your hot hands on the...
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