Assign value to related field

[fmarambio]

Hi there!

I just been trying couple of days to do the following:

I created a custom related field (Account) in module A and I created a logic hook that has to assign a value to this related field (Account) from module B. Which value do I have to assign to the related field, in this case the account ID?? or do I have to use load_relationship function.

Thanks for your help.

[rafael.q.g@hotmail.com]

A related field is composed of two fields, one that is stored on db, that is the related id, and other that is used just to display the related record name on screen.

So if your logic_hook is to save a related object, you just have to assign the desired Id to the id field before save it.
If you want to compute some relation before display the record on screen, you have to set values to both fields, the ID, and the textual one.

[fmarambio]

Thank very much Rafael,

Now I get it!!! I was just assigning to the related field the id (in this case the contact id, is this correct right?) and It was not showing nothing in the detail view.

Now if I want to assign the id and the display value on screen how do I do this assignation? Could you give me an example?

Thank you very much, do you recommend any documentation for this matter??

Francisco

[rafael.q.g@hotmail.com]

Here is a short exemple:

//inside method callled by logic_hook
$focus->contact_id="abcd-1234-efgh...";
$focus->contact="The contact Name";

Just it will assign the desired values to the related field.

I don't known any good documentation for this (The is just the sugar developer guide, but I think it don't goes in these details), but on sugar forum you can find many explanations.