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 ...

For some time I’ve ran this blog on Wordpress and I’ve had no complaints. Wordpress is a mature and very powerful platform.

However in my case that turns out to be it’s undoing. I blog at most once a week (it’s been much less than that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...