How to create a custom view of type Edit in SugarCRM CE 6.5 or SuiteCRM.

In SugarCRM CE 6.5 or in SuiteCRM there is the standard EditView mask that allows you to insert/modify an object of a specific module, there is also the QuickCreate that can be used to quickly insert an object.

These two masks are standard and easy to manage with Studio.

Sometimes, however, it can be useful to create a custom view of type Edit to manage personalized insert/modify to be used in specific cases.

To obtain this you need 3 steps:

create the view in

custom/modules//views/view..php;

create the view in

custom/modules//controller.php;

define the view in

custom/modules//metadata/viewdefs.php

After a “Quick Repair and Rebuild”, you are allowed to call the view with a link like this

/index.php?module=&action=&record=

eventually followed with other parameters you may need (managed in the file view..php).

Let’s start with the file

custom/modules//views/view..php:

View extends ViewEdit {

public function preDisplay() {
$this->type = ‘‘;
parent::preDisplay();
$this->ev->view = ‘View’;
}

public function display() {
parent::display();
}

}
?>

Let’s examine the file

custom/modules//controller.php:

Controller extends SugarController {

public function action_() {
$this->view = ‘‘;
}

}
?>

Finally the file

custom/modules//metadata/viewdefs.php

that will have the same syntax of the file

custom/modules//metadata/​editviewdefs.php​:

‘;
$_object_name = ‘‘;
$viewdefs [$module_name] =
array (
‘EditView’ =>
array (
‘templateMeta’ =>
array (
‘form’ =>
array (
‘buttons’ =>
array (
0 => ‘SAVE’,
1 => ‘CANCEL’,
),
‘headerTpl’ => ‘include/EditView/header.tpl’,
‘footerTpl’ => ‘include/EditView/footer.tpl’,
),
‘maxColumns’ => ‘2’,
‘widths’ =>
array (
0 =>
array (
‘label’ => ’10’,
‘field’ => ’30’,
),
1 =>
array (
‘label’ => ’10’,
‘field’ => ’30’,
),
),
‘useTabs’ => false,
‘tabDefs’ =>
array (
‘DEFAULT’ =>
array (
‘newTab’ => false,
‘panelDefault’ => ‘expanded’,
),
),
),
‘panels’ =>
array (
‘default’ =>
array (
0 =>
array (
0 => ‘name’
),
),
),
),
);
?>

In this example we put only the field “name”, but of course you can set it similarly to the file

custom/modules//metadata/​editviewdefs.php​