Proposed tab name changes

[MurrayE]

Hi

Has anyone had experience of changing tab names and all underlying display names for Open Source SugarCRM?

We are from an Education Institute and want a Contact Management System to improve communication between departments, We will get no benefit from the CRM sales component of SugarCRM but see the contacts, projects and activities as critical modules. We therefore want to remove some of the sales terminology.

We want to change the rereference from 'Accounts' to 'Organisations'. We realise that some of the display names cannot be changed but was wondering if there were any underlying coding issues for upgrades and plug-ins when just the display names are changed?

Your thoughts are welcome.

Emma

[scliburn]

We have made many changes both via the admin section and hard coding of some values.

We have also ran upgrades without any development issues as of yet.

You are correct that some of the common tab names are not changed throughout the site in a global aspect.

We've been able to work around this. You should be able too. Good luck.

[MurrayE]

Thanks for the message. We are getting conflicting information from a consultancy firm and our IT people have been wondering if they have understood our requirements properly or are unsure of how the changes will impact the system. The best way is for me to start having a go!

Emma

[cywolf]

If you want to change all the references (not just the tab names) you'll need to edit the language files. I find the easy and upgrade-friendly way to do this is to create a new en_us.lang.override.php file in each module's language directory (and probably for the application's language file too). In that file you can just define alternate translations for each of the fields in en_us.lang.php. I use something like this in the override file:

 foreach(array(
 
   'LBL_MODULE_NAME' => 'Organizations',
   'LBL_MODULE_TITLE' => 'Organizations',
   // etc.
 
) as $k => $v) $mod_strings[$k] = $v; 
  

[rliebscher]

Hi Emma,

u can easy change all the names for modules and labels in SugarCRM
All names are defined in key-value-pairs in language-files.

The key is the internal name (used in DB or code to address the item) and the value ist the displayed text.

The global language-files are located in ..\SugarCRM\include\language\
Every module has an additional language-file in ..\SugarCRM\modules\modulname\language\

In global file all the application-wide names (module-names and others) r defined like:

'Contacts' => 'Contacts',
'Accounts' => 'Accounts',
'Opportunities' => 'Opportunities',

The left value is the key stored in the db and the right value is the display value
So u can modify the right value to your needs.

In the module-specific language-files all the names for the module-sites are defined like:

'LBL_ACCOUNT_NAME' => 'Account Name:',
'LBL_ACTIVITIES_SUBPANEL_TITLE'=>'Activities',
'LBL_ADD_BUSINESSCARD' => 'Enter Business Card',

The left value is the internal key, used in code to address the label
The right value is the displayed text.
So u can modify this right value to your needs.

You can now modify the orginal files, but please backup!!

I think there is another way (more safe i think), but i did not proof it.
U can create an own language-pack and make this as default language.

A guide to create language-packs is located here:
http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/downlo...uage_Packs.rtf

Hope, this helps.

Ronny

[MurrayE]

Thank you Andrew and Ronny for your advice. It is very good to know that there are work arounds to a small change that we would like, and I am wanting to avoid division over this issue.

Looks like I will need to learn PHP coding. I am as green, as green when it comes to coding and have only done coding for an archaic system so I intend to learn more about this coding.

Thank you again for your advice.

Emma