Customizing Leads and Accounts

[Heilong]

Hi everyone,

I have a quite big modification to do in 2 modules, both of them will have the same modification.

What I want to do, I need to add on the EditView, and the Advanced Search View of each module a sort of component which will contain 2 or more related dropdown (dynamic dropdown).

The content of each dropdown will be taken from a personalized table in the SugarCRM database, this Table will be added by myself.

I need that component to be independant, not like custom dropdown provided by Sugar, because a page will be created to manage this component, edit, delete, modify, like a back office for the component.

What I need to know is how and where to add the PHP code needed to realize this, it should be like a panel which will contain this component.

Any ideas,

Thanks,

[dpatech]

I think your best bet here is to develop a custom widget and field type. Look in include/generic/SugarWidgets for examples of the built in types. You can drop your own code in this folder and create a custom widget and field type that can be referenced and used by other modules. The one caveat is that your new field type will not be recogized by the Admin Studio. However, if you edit the metadata files directly you can reference the new field type.