Accessing main module's values in subpanel

[hadoob024]

Hello. I'm new to SugarCRM. Read through the tutorial here and have just been given my first assignment. It's going well, except I can't figure out one thing. We have a main module called "Carriers". This module has a subpanel called "Manufacturers". When I'm creating a new record in "Manufacturers", I want to include the record number of the "Carriers" module as a field to be stored in my "Manufacturers" module, but can't figure this out for the life of me. Any thoughts on this? All the tutorials never showed how to do this, but it seems like a basic thing to me. Thanks!

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Duh. Never mind. Lightbulb just went off. Thanks anyway.

[mapm]

You can create a relate field to do this or some kind of relation in the relationships tab, but first, I think, you need to install booth modules...

[hadoob024]

Thanks. I think a lightbulb went off and I kind of realized that's how values are calculated and how information is passed back and forth between modules. Here's what I've done so far. I've created both modules and they're working fine. In my Manufacturers subpanel's vardefs file, I've created a carrier_id (of type id) field, a carrier_name (of type relate) field, a carriers (of type link) field. And then in the relationships array I created man_carrier field where for the LHS values, I used Carrier, carrier and id. And for the RHS values I used Manufacturers, manufacturers and carrier_id. The relationship type is "one-to-many". Does that seem right so far?

I guess my next question is where to actually get carrier_id populated? Is it done in editviewdefs.php (if so, how?)? Is it done in my view.manufacturers.php view (if so, how?)? Thanks.

[hadoob024]

Sweeeeet. I figured it out. I went into view.edit.php and basically added the following bit of code:

 $this->ev->fieldDefs['carrier_id']['value'] = $_REQUEST['parent_id']; 
  

Now that value seems to be populating properly.