Module builder and studio are both great tools. They allow simple customisation of a SuiteCRM instance without having to know all the inner workings of SuiteCRM. In particular studio and module builder allows specifying relationships between modules.

However these relationships can leave a lot to be desired. The generated relationship ...

Sometimes you will want to format fields that are shown on the list view depending on the values. For example you may want to colour the direction field on calls differently or to highlight quotes that expire soon.

In this post we’ll be adding a simple coloured border to the “Industry” field in the Accounts list view. more ...

You may occasionally want to install SuiteCRM from some automated process. SuiteCRM provides a way to do a “Silent” install which, when given a config_si.php file containing some of the installation details will perform an install.

The steps involved are quite straightforward. First off we create a config_si.php ...

For an upcoming post on performance tuning I’ve been playing around with larger databases. To do this I wrote a small script which would insert (possibly) millions of rows. This presented a problem however. Inserting the data was taking a very long time and I was keen to have ...

One of the great things about SuiteCRM is that it’s open source. This means that, if you find a bug, not only can you fix it but you can also share that fix with the world. This post will briefly cover how to go about contributing a SuiteCRM fix ...

Like a lot of SuiteCRM the field types are customisable and you can add your own types of fields. This post will explain how to add a colour picker as a custom field type.

First off we need to add the option to studio to allow creating fields of our ...

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 ...

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 ...