custom dropdown per project

[robbrandt]

I am a software developer wanting to use Sugar in our organization. Most of my projects are software projects.

I have modified the Project tasks module in Studio so that there is a dropdown in which the software component is identified within the tasks. It's functioning well as such, but I now realize that this dropdown will show up in all of my projects. But each project has it's own, completely different set of components. How do I set it up so that each project has it's own components - it's own dropdown?

In a related issue, it seems like I might be able to use the bugtracker for my own projects, not for bugs in Sugar per se. I would like to be able to select a project and component instead of a category for each bug. Also, "releases" seems to be a global value as well, when it should actually be on a project by project basis as well.

can I do these things? How?

Thanks.

[mvngti]

Have a look at this project - http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/enhancedstudio/

It adds a field type "Code" that can run arbitrary php code to render a field. You could use it to run the code to create or populate the dropdowns with the correct values every time a record is rendered.

The only other alternative is to use logic hooks or custom logic in the module's object to populate the dropdown lists which also works but is more difficult.

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[robbrandt]

Could I use it to select which dropdown is displayed? That way I'd only have to touch code when I have a new project. I could manage dropdown content itself in Studio.

[robbrandt]

Hmm, this appears to be commercial(?). I work for a non-profit, I won't get budget for that

[mvngti]

Pretty sure you would be able to use the demo version if you contact the developer.

The alternative is to modify the (1) field_defs or (2) dropdown in the objects constructor.

1) The object will have an array of fields called $field_name_map - every entry is a field with an array of elements - every field that is a dropdown has an element 'options' in the array that specify which dropdown list to use. If you change options element it will use a different dropdown.

2) The actual dropdowns are saved in $app_list_strings['dropdown_name'] so altering that array will alter the options available to the field.