Customize Activities ListView SubPanel

[mswaim1]

I'm trying to get a cstm notes field to appear in the subpanel for notes on accounts and contacts detail views. I've tried editing modules/activities/subpanelview.html and modules/notes/subpanelview.html and simply changing header column labels to see if im in the right place. I dont see any results even after clearing the vardefs and template data caches. Can someone verify that this is where i need to start or should i create the \sugar\custom\modules\Notes\Ext\Layoutdefs dir (see http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32787) and work from here?


sugar 5.0.a

[andopes]

Hi, mswaim1

You have to add this new custom field into custom/modules/Notes/metadata/subpanels/ForHistory.php
And you need to add this new field into all activities modules FotHistory.php with the option "force_exist"
Without that your sugar will die due sql error.

Cheers

[enrashid]

Hi, mswaim1

You have to add this new custom field into custom/modules/Notes/metadata/subpanels/ForHistory.php
And you need to add this new field into all activities modules FotHistory.php with the option "force_exist"
Without that your sugar will die due sql error.

Cheers

The above instructions allow me to successfully add a custom field ONLY to Notes and for the other modules, I put in the force_exists. Great.

The result so far is that I see the custom field for the Notes module, but when you look at the History subpanel for Accounts, you do not see this custom field. I know there is probably one more file to edit. Any guidance is appreciated.

Cheers - El-Noor

[enrashid]

Hi everyone,

I've gotten the extra field to appear in the Subpanel, however no entries show up in the subpanel anymore (even though in the top-right corner of the subpanel it says "1-4 of 4 of 4").

When I remove the added field, all of my Activities show up, and if I set my custom field to 'usage'=>'query_only', it disappears from the list, but I don't see any activities.

So, adding the code causes them not to display, and the question I'm asking is if anyone knows why this could happen.

Here is the code I am using in Meetings and Calls:

'testaddedtask_c'=>array(
'vname'=>'LBL_TESTADDEDTASK',
'force_exists'=>true,
),

And here is the code I'm using in Tasks (where I've actually created the field)

'testaddedtask_c'=>array(
'vname'=>'LBL_TESTADDEDTASK',
),

(Sugar Enterprise 5.0d)

Thanks in advance for the help.

Mike

[enrashid]

It turns out that 'force_exists'=>true actually causes the UNION ALL query to return a mis-matched number of columns.

'testaddedtask_c'=>array(
'vname'=>'LBL_TESTADDEDTASK',
),

Turns out that is the entry you need in all of the 'Activities' modules (and I only created the field in tasks).

Hope this saves somebody a lot of head banging.....

Mike