Adding user field for purposes other than "assigned to"

[ZeeG]

I've been trying to create a module in SugarCRM which requires several fields to be filled in with the names of employees.

Am I able to place a field similar to "assigned to", where as you type, it searches the list of employees to pick one out, rather than just a plain textfield?

Version: 6.0.2 Professional

Thanks,
Zee

[ashdwi1]

Hello,
assigned to field is coming from base package of module.
so it is already in all modules.
you can use this field anywhere in your modules.
please let me know if you have questions.
thanks

[ZeeG]

Hello,
assigned to field is coming from base package of module.
so it is already in all modules.
you can use this field anywhere in your modules.
please let me know if you have questions.
thanks

Thanks, but I need the field to be on the page 3 times. For separate things, such as:

Pricing Provided by:
Main contact:
Peer Checked by:

All of these fields only require 1 person as well.

Thanks,
Zee

[ashdwi1]

Hello,
as user module is not availlable in stduio , you need to do work with vardefs extensions.

you need to create 2 fields for one new field to relate user module.

here are sample for one new field.

$dictionary["Case"]["fields"]['created_by_others'] =
array (
'name' => 'created_by_others',
'rname' => 'name',
'type' => 'relate',
'dbType' => 'id',
'rname' => 'id',
'module' => 'Users',
'id_name' => 'created_by_others',
'reportable'=>false,
'vname'=>'LBL_OTHER_ID',
'audited'=>true,
'massupdate' => false,
);


$dictionary["Case"]["fields"]['created_by_others_name'] =
array (
'name' => 'created_by_others_name',
'rname' => 'name',
'id_name' => 'created_by_others',
'vname' => 'LBL_ACCOUNT_NAME_C',
'type' => 'relate',
'link'=>'users',
'table' => 'users',
'join_name'=>'users',
'isnull' => 'true',
'module' => 'Users',
'dbType' => 'varchar',
'len' => 100,
'source'=>'non-db',
'unified_search' => true,
'comment' => 'The name of the account represented by the account_id field',
'required' => true,
'importable' => 'required',
'studio' =>'visible',
);

please let me know if any further queries.
thanks

[ZeeG]

thanks heaps for that

[item]

Hi,
A little late for me...

nice tips but in 6.2, we have the possibility to make relation to users module.
see release note.

Regards.