Dashlet Filters - a minor annoyance

[agcopley]

Hello,
One of the minor annoyances I have with Dashlets, is that you cant tell what filter is on without opening the config panel.
A simple way around this is to overwrite the getHeader function in <Module>Dashlet.php in your Dashlets folder for that module

Here you can get access to the filters and alter the Header by adding a string based on your filters
I include an example below and a wee picture of what it looks like

 
    public function getHeader($text = '') 
    {
        global $sugar_config, $app_list_strings,$current_language;
       include_once('modules/Accounts/Account.php');
        $home_mod_strings = return_module_language($current_language, 'Home');
        $filterTypes = array(' '                 => $app_strings['LBL_NONE'],
                             'TP_today'         => $home_mod_strings['LBL_TODAY'],
                             'TP_yesterday'     => $home_mod_strings['LBL_YESTERDAY'],
                             'TP_tomorrow'      => $home_mod_strings['LBL_TOMORROW'],
                             'TP_this_month'    => $home_mod_strings['LBL_THIS_MONTH'],
                             'TP_this_year'     => $home_mod_strings['LBL_THIS_YEAR'],
                             'TP_last_30_days'  => $home_mod_strings['LBL_LAST_30_DAYS'],
                             'TP_last_7_days'   => $home_mod_strings['LBL_LAST_7_DAYS'],
                             'TP_last_month'    => $home_mod_strings['LBL_LAST_MONTH'],
                             'TP_last_year'     => $home_mod_strings['LBL_LAST_YEAR'],
                             'TP_next_30_days'  => $home_mod_strings['LBL_NEXT_30_DAYS'],
                             'TP_next_7_days'   => $home_mod_strings['LBL_NEXT_7_DAYS'],
                             'TP_next_month'    => $home_mod_strings['LBL_NEXT_MONTH'],
                             'TP_next_year'     => $home_mod_strings['LBL_NEXT_YEAR'],
                             );
           
       foreach($this->filters as $key=>$params){
        if($key=='name')
            $this->title.='&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TIO:<i style="background-color:yellow;">'.$params.'</i>';
        if($key=='billing_account'){
            $bc= new Account();
            $bc->retrieve($params[0]);
            
            $this->title.='&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CLIENTE:<i style="background-color:yellow;">'.$bc->name.'</i>';
        }
        if($key=='mm8_tios_accounts_name'){
            $bc= new Account();
            $bc->retrieve($params[0]);
            
            $this->title.='&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CANAL:<i style="background-color:yellow;">'.$bc->name.'</i>';
        }
        if($key=='order_date' && $params['type']!=""){

            
            $this->title.='&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;EMITIDO:<i style="background-color:yellow;">'.$filterTypes[$params['type']].'</i>';
        }
       
      }
        $title = '<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td width="99%">' . $text . '</td>';
        $title .= $this->setConfigureIcon();
        $title .= $this->setRefreshIcon();
        $title .= $this->setDeleteIcon();
            
        $str = '<div ';
        if(empty($sugar_config['lock_homepage']) || $sugar_config['lock_homepage'] == false) $str .= 'onmouseover="this.style.cursor = \'move\';" ';
        $str .= 'id="dashlet_header_' . $this->id . '" class="hd"><div class="tl"></div><div class="hd-center">' . get_form_header($this->title, $title, false) . '</div><div class="tr"></div></div><div class="bd"><div class="ml"></div><div class="bd-center">';
        
        return $str;
    } 
  

Its quick and dirty and not upgrade safe, sorry about that!

[jmertic]

This is a great idea! Would you mind adding a feature request bug for this at Bug Portal | SugarCRM.com English (Americas), and a pull request with this code to https://github.com/sugarcrm/sugarcrm_dev? Thanks!

[Chris_C]

I like this- version 2 of feature could have a jquery live editable filter- let the user click and modify the filter- select a different Client, From, Since, Until...