In SugarCRM CE 6.5 or in SuiteCRM there is the standard ListView mask that allows you to Filter/Exports/Delete/Edit an object of a specific module, there is also the Send Mail/SMS that can be used to quickly access 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 List to manage personalized Filter/Exports/Delete/Edit 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 ViewList {

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/​viewdefs.php​:

‘;
$_object_name = ‘‘;
$viewdefs [$module_name] =
array (
‘NAME’ =>
array (
‘width’=> ‘32%’,
‘label’=>’LBL_NAME’,
‘default’=>true,
‘link’=>true,
),
‘GROUP_COUNT’ =>
array(
‘type’ => ‘varchar’,
‘label’=> ‘LBL_GROUP_COUNT’,
‘width’=> ‘10%’,
‘default’=>true,
),
‘DATE_ENTERED’=>
array(
‘type’=> ‘datetime’,
‘label’=>’LBL_DATE_ENTERED’,
‘width’=>’10%’,
‘default’=>true,
),
);
?>

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

custom/modules//metadata/viewdefs.php​