Adding in new Module items to Activities Subpanel / Relationships

[leenwebb]

Hi Sugarers,
I've created a custom module in my Sugar 4.5.0e called "Letters". I based it on the "Meetings" module, and it's pretty simple and works just fine on its own. Now I'd like to create a relationship between the Letters_cstm.contact_id field and Contact.id. My eventual goal is to add Letters into the Activities Subpanel, so that when I look at a contact, I can see any calls/meetings/letters/tasks/etc right there in the subpanel.

So far I have had no luck at all. Here's what I've done:

• created metadata/letters_contactsMetaData.php. I just duplicated the meetings_contacts file and changed all the meeting references to letters.
• added a reference to the above file into Modules/TableDictionary.php
• repaired Relationships. I added the letters_contacts table (including indices) manually.

I assume I need to add something to the vardefs file, but what? And where -- just the Contacts/vardefs.php, or do I need to do Letters/vardefs.php as well? Or am I totally on the wrong track? I saw a mention in a forum post of a Ken Brill relationship "walkthrough" but wasn't able to find anything beyond basic file descriptions.

Any advice would be much appreciated --

Eileen

[ruchida]

Hi,

There are very helpful Wiki articles for this sort of customization.
http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Subpanels
http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.p...nels_Explained

[leenwebb]

Thanks for the reply.

I had seen these and still wasn't able to get my relationship working. I think these articles are in the family of tech info where if you can understand the article right away, you probably don't need it. I'm in the other camp -- I need the help, and they're full of descriptive (but not instructive) information.

Does anyone know of any instructive (step-by-step, or even anecdotal) information about creating new relationships?

Thanks
Eileen