Custom Pages

[mpar612]

I am curious if I can implement an idea. I am new to using Sugar 5.2 CE. For each of my employees I want to store additional information. I want each employee to have a picture and about 20 other text/dropdown/radio/checkbox fields. I want to query this information and display it on a front-end website for the general public to see.

There is not a module for employees so it is my understanding that if I were to go in and make these changes my installation of Sugar will not be upgradeable without totally undoing my customization. Is this correct?

If customizing the employee area is not a wise choice, is there a way I can create some external PHP pages, that I can add to My Portal that will allow users to update a database outside of the Sugar database? The key would be to ensure that users are authenticated and are updating their own record in the database and not anyone else's.

I want to avoid having two different systems to maintain.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[mvngti]

If you create a file modules/Users/metadata/studio.php you will be able to create custom fields on the Users module in Studio.

Then you just have to create a small action in custom/modules/Users that can maintain these custom fields.
This will be 100% upgrade safe.

Attached is a crude example of such an action that can be called as index.php?module=Users&&action=gtflags&record=<use r_id>

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