Customising Edit Views with TPLs

[matt.stannard]

Hi there,

I've written a number of custom modules and laid out the fields using the Studio, what I want to do now is go a little bit further.

Can I specify the actual HTML generate as I want to put some AJAX in the edit view. What I am going to do is hide a textarea and display its contents in a DIV block. When a user clicks on a field I want it to copy the value to the textarea / div block - this will only be updated when the form is submitted.

I've noticed some of the SugarCRM modules have tpl files, can I specify a TPL file for my module?

[Angel]

Yes, it is possible to do that. You can completely override the edit, detail or listview.

The basic premise is to create a custom view.edit.php file which in turn points to the custom TPL file you want to use.

There are a couple of examples of it within the forums (searching for view.edit.php should yield them). You should also check out the Developer site as I believe it too contains some examples: http://developer.sugarcrm.com