Intro

I work with SuiteCRM at my day job daily and have become quite experienced in it’s use, particularly customising and developing with SuiteCRM. However as a young project it lacks the wealth of resources that other projects have. Even the project from which it is forked could do ...

Intro

Sometimes you may want to add custom search fields to a module that do more than simply search a field. In this post we’ll be looking at how to add a custom search field which will allow searching for all accounts that have no associated contacts.

Adding the ...

SuiteCRM package builder is a small PHP script which eases the pain of building a SuiteCRM package for installing changes to other instances. It simply requires a SuiteCRM install and a compliant manifest file.

This means you can build up the bulk of the package just by running something similar ...

Intro

The BeanFactory is a great way to load and query for beans without using SQL.

For example we can load an Account with a known id:

$bean = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts', '1234');

Unexpected behaviour

However this method can cause some unexpected behaviour. Let’s look at the following example: wzxhzdk ...