Creating an upload fiels in Module builder

[shan1111]

Hi

Does anyone know how to create a field in the the module loader to the documents module, i am trying to create and upload file field

Thanks in Advance

Cheers
Shannon

[andopes]

Hi, Shannon

I believe you can create a file_upload field as a varchar field and into editviewdefs, add the attribute "type" => 'File'.
It automatically create into EditView a fileupload field with file selector.
I´m not sure it automatically upload the file, but you can try this.

Cheers.

[shan1111]

Thanks i will give it a go

[cindyglackin]

Shannon,

Did this work? I am trying to create the same type of field.

[shan1111]

Hi I actually ran short of time and worked around my issue another way

Shannon

[balth]

Hi, Shannon

I believe you can create a file_upload field as a varchar field and into editviewdefs, add the attribute "type" => 'File'.
It automatically create into EditView a fileupload field with file selector.
I´m not sure it automatically upload the file, but you can try this.

Cheers.

Hi all,
I try to do the same thing but unfortunatelly :
- Varchar type doesn't exist anymore for fields (I use SugarCRM CE Version 5.0.0d )
- Into" editview" (from "Module Builder" I think) I don't understand how to add the attribute "type" => 'File'.

Can You give us more details please?
Thanks in advance for answer !

[andopes]

Hi all,
I try to do the same thing but unfortunatelly :
- Varchar type doesn't exist anymore for fields (I use SugarCRM CE Version 5.0.0d )
- Into" editview" (from "Module Builder" I think) I don't understand how to add the attribute "type" => 'File'.

Can You give us more details please?
Thanks in advance for answer !

Hi, balth

You can create a Text field, not text area, it is the same of varchar
Inside the editviewdefs, exactly where you want to render the field you can put this code:

     array (
        array(
            'name'=>'file_upload',
            'type'=>'File',
    ), 
  

Cheers

[balth]

Thanks for answer andopes,

but it doesn't work to me....
adding "'type'=>'File', " in my editviewdefs.php doesn't change anything...
And after learning some code from document module (for example), it seem more complicated than just adding "'type'=>'File', " into a file...

[balth]

Hi all,

Answer to the problem is to edit your vardef.php file in /var/www/your_sugar_dir/modules/your_mod_dir/

 'bmfb' =>         <<MY PERSONAL FIELD 
array (     'required' => false,     
'name' => 'bmfb',     
'vname' => 'LBL_BMFB',    
'type' => 'file',                    << CHANGE HERE - REPLACE "varchar" BY "file"
'massupdate' => 0,     
'comments' => '',     
'help' => '',    
'duplicate_merge' => 'disabled',     
'duplicate_merge_dom_value' => 0,     
'audited' => 0,     
'reportable' => 0,     
'len' => '255',   ), 
  

Then repair your module (without repairing database) and it's done...

[eggsurplus]

This isn't upgrade safe but the attachment will let you create file custom field types in Studio.

Use only if you're sure of what you're doing on a test environment. Just unzip and copy into Sugar. Based on 5.0.0c.