This post will cover deploying an instance of SuiteCRM to Digital Ocean from creating the droplet to logging into SuiteCRM. If there’s enough interest I’ll do similar guides for other hosts.
First you’ll need a Digital Ocean account. If you don’t have one it’s easy …
I’ve previously created a very simple module for SuiteCRM which adds coloured logging (SuiteCRM Colour Logger). I’ve now expanded it somewhat to add extra features.
It’s now called SuiteSuperLogger and allows specifying the log format in the config.
Enabling coloured logging can be done by adding
$sugar_config …With the release of SuiteCRM 7.3 comes Alerts. These are displayed within SuiteCRM as a small badge in the menu bar. I.e:
Since these are just stored as beans we can add notifications by simply creating a new record with the appropriate values and saving it. For example …
The CLI to php allows checking for syntax errors using php -l I’ve
created a very basic script which will recursively check folders for php
files with syntax errors. It’s intended to quickly show syntax errors in
a large application. It’s available here:
https://github.com/JimMackin …
Sometimes when you create a new module you want it to appear in the “Related To” dropdowns around SuiteCRM. This post will cover the simple method of adding modules to these dropdowns.
In this post we’ll add a fictional “Sport” module to the dropdown. We’ll end up with …
If you’ve created a custom module but are getting the message “Imports aren’t set up for this module type” then it’s very easy to add this functionality to your custom module.
In the bean file modules/ABC_Your_Module/ABC_Your_Module.php simply
add the line
var $importable = true;
After …
If you move instances of SuiteCRM around it’s possible to have a copy of
the SuiteCRM files that reference a custom field that doesn’t exist in the fields_meta_data table.
This can cause broken SQL queries since SuiteCRM will try to reference a field but won’t have it …
A previous post covered adding a button to the List View. However this was adding an action button to the list as a whole. This post will cover adding buttons for each row.
By the end of this post you will be able to add buttons such as this one …
Me and my wife occasionally play a simple game when on longer car journeys. In the UK the last 3 characters in a car registration plate are letters.
The aim of the game is to come up with words which start with the first
letter, end with the last letter …
It’s possible to add your own action menu items to the List view. By the end of this post you’ll be able to add your own menu items like this one:
