creating custom button on listview

[blqt]

Hi,

I have successfully created a custom button on the Accounts List View.
Basically, the purpose is to add a button similar to the export button.
I copied and adapted the generic view.list, ListView.tpl and ListViewPagination.tpl in custom/modules/Accounts

I added the following code in ListViewPagination.tpl:
<input id='print_contacts_link' class="button" type='button' value="Export contacts" onclick="return sListView.send_form(true, 'Accounts', 'contactsreport.php','You must select at least one account.')">

It works fine, but I am wondering if I did it the best way:
- it might require some changes when upgrading SugarCRM
- there is no way to use different languages for the button or the error message.

Is there a way to add a button in custom/modules/Accounts/metadata/listviewdefs.php (or in another location) ? What would be the syntax to do that?

My configuration:
- Community Edition 5.0.0g
- Windows XP
- Apache, PHP5, MySQL

Thanks in advance,
Benoit

[jibouille58]

And to delete the "export" button of Tasks for example or the "compose a mail" of contacts, how you make please ?

[Rudi Mentär]

i would also like to remove the export button in only one module - how can i do that?

[dlorenzetti]

Hello All,

to remove the export button you can do that:

in custom/modules/Accounts/views/view.list.php

 if(!defined('sugarEntry') || !sugarEntry) die('Not A Valid Entry Point');
 
require_once('include/MVC/View/views/view.list.php');
 
class AccountsViewList extends ViewList {
 
     function preDisplay(){
         $this->lv = new ListViewSmarty();
 
         $this->lv->delete = false;
     }
 
} 
  

and to create a button one good idea is in this same file (view.list.php) you do that:

 <?php
if(!defined('sugarEntry') || !sugarEntry) die('Not A Valid Entry Point');
 
require_once('include/MVC/View/views/view.list.php');
 
class AccountsViewList extends ViewList {
 
     function listViewProcess(){
        $this->processSearchForm();
        $this->lv->searchColumns = $this->searchForm->searchColumns;
        
        if(!$this->headers)
            return;
        if(empty($_REQUEST['search_form_only']) || $_REQUEST['search_form_only'] == false){
            $this->lv->setup($this->seed, 'custom/include/ListView/ListViewIntegration.tpl', $this->where, $this->params);
            $savedSearchName = empty($_REQUEST['saved_search_select_name']) ? '' : (' - ' . $_REQUEST['saved_search_select_name']);
            echo get_form_header($GLOBALS['mod_strings']['LBL_LIST_FORM_TITLE'] . $savedSearchName, '', false);
            echo $this->lv->display();
        }
     }
}
?>  

you can see in this line:
$this->lv->setup($this->seed, 'custom/include/ListView/ListViewIntegration.tpl', $this->where, $this->params);

I change the tpl file, in this tpl you can call you custom pagination tpl with the new button.

[Rudi Mentär]

thx a lot !
works perfect!

[changfoot]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to do a similar thing.

Except instead of removing a button and playing with the pagination.tpl, I want add an icon next to an account name in the account module list view.

I've tried this a couple of ways, but I'm getting stuck.

If I follow something similar to the above:


1. Create a custom/modules/Accounts/views/view.list.php

2. How/Where would I point to the ListViewGeneric.tpl (this is the listing TPL right?)

In the example above you render a custom view for the pagination.tpl, which is included by the generic.tpl within /includes/ListView.


Please give me some input... really appreciate it!


Thanks!


T

[Bhawna Chauhan]

Hello All

I have created a custom module called CP_CustomButton.In that module i have created a custom button in the edit view named "Save as text file". The code for that in editviewdefs.php is as follows:

array (
'form' =>
array (
'buttons' =>
array (
0 => 'SAVE',
1 => 'CANCEL',
2 => 'DELETE',
3 =>
array (
'customCode' => '<input title="Save File" accessKey="a" type="button" class="button" onClick="document.location=\'index.php?module=CP_C ustomButton&action=SaveFile\'" name="SaveToFile" value="SaveToFile">',
),
),
),


For the "Save File" action the code in controller.php is as follows:

<?php

class CP_CustomButtonController extends SugarController {

function action_SaveFile()
{
// write the php code here
$fname = $this->module;
$description = $_REQUEST['description'];
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];

$fp = fopen("c:/myfile.txt","w") or exit("unable to open the file");
if($fp != null)
{
fwrite($fp,$fname);
fwrite($fp,"\n");
fwrite($fp,$name);
fwrite($fp,"\n");
fwrite($fp,$description);
fwrite($fp,"\n");
fwrite($fp,"end");
}
fclose($fp);
}
} // end class


Through this i am able to create a file "myfile.txt" but i am unable to retrieve the values that the user enters in the textbox.

Please help in retrieving data or values that the users enter in the textbox to a text file.

Thanks
Bhawna