Customizing Mass Update in 5.0

[bstonehill]

Okay, hopefully this is my last issue for awhile. I have a custom module (Equipment) that is related to Accounts and another custom module (Purchase Orders). I need to be able to assign equipment to an account and a purchase order using mass update. How would I go about this in 5.0?

I also need to remove unwanted fields from massupdate. In the past I added a "massupdate => 'false';" in vardefs.php for the field I wanted to remove. That does not seem to work in 5.0 (unless I've just got the wrong vardefs file, but I'm pretty sure I do).
Is there a different way to accomplish this in 5.0?

Thanks

[bstonehill]

Okay, I've read everything I can find on this subject. I need to remove most of the mass update fields under accounts but the ones I need to disable are not listed in modules/accounts/vardefs.php, in fact it appears that only relational type fields are there.

For the industry fieId for example, I noticed that in studio mass update is unchecked and I obviously cannot edit it because it's not a custom field. Even though it's unchecked it still shows up in massupdate and it is one of the fields that is not listed in vardefs.php. I tried adding an entry for it manually but then that causes errors when I run a repair.

I'm running 5.0.0e.

I also need to be able to either add a relate field (like assigned_user) to mass update or get the multiple select checkboxes under the select popup on a custom module. They are available in all of the default modules but none of the custom ones. Is this deliberate or a bug and can it be manually added?

[stabde]

hi,
Ihave the same problem .. i would like to do the same thing.. nobody can help ??

[nikidinsey]

I'd like to bump this month old thread.

This is really rather odd - with other modules you can manage the 'massupdate' => true/false quite easily.

With Accounts this doesn't seem to be the case.

modules/Accounts/vardefs.php doesn't contain 'industry' or 'account_type' at all yet both end up in the final Mass Update panel.

After a bit of digging I found the only mention of industy and account_type was in the cache in the following files:

/cache/modules/modulebuilder/Accountsvardef.php
/cache/modules/Accounts/Accountsvardef.php

After playing about modulebuilder's version doesn't seem to do anything - removing it doesn't regenerate it when browsing to the page, I suspect (but haven't tried) this will regenerate when changing stuff in the module builder.

The accounts' version does effectively work if edited but if you delete the file and browse to the page it regenerates back to the original configuration (i.e. the fields return to mass update)

I can't for the life of me see where to properly remove these vardefs from the Accounts module - any help appreciated!

Thanks a lot

Niks

[andopes]

Hi all

You can create an extended vardefs for Accounts (custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Vardefs/vardefs.ext.php)
Inside this file you can redefine the massupdate attribute to the Accounts fields.
After that you need to Repair Extension.
The fields whose massupdate is checked as false will no longer be displayed into MassUpdate form.
It also works for relate fields (Equipments and Purchase Order).

Cheers

[nikidinsey]

Hi thanks andopes, that did the trick.

I created the file as you said and used an existing vardefs.ext.php file for guidance. My code ended up as:

 <?php
// Added to remove massupdate fields
$dictionary["Account"]["fields"]["account_type"] = array (
   'name' => 'account_type',
   'vname' => 'LBL_TYPE',
   'type' => 'enum',
   'options' => 'account_type_dom',
   'len' => 50,
   'comment' => 'The Company is of this type',  
   'massupdate' => false,
);
 
$dictionary["Account"]["fields"]["industry"] = array (
   'name' => 'industry',
   'vname' => 'LBL_INDUSTRY',
   'type' => 'enum',
   'options' => 'industry_dom',
   'len' => 50,
   'comment' => 'The company belongs in this industry',
   'merge_filter' => 'enabled',
   'massupdate' => false,
);
 
?>  

After this rebuilt the extensions and everything works correctly.

Thanks a lot!

Niks

[maus]

This file already exists in: custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Vardefs/vardefs.ext.php

and it says //WARNING: The contents of this file are auto-generated

when i add the code my sugarcrm doesn't work anymore.

could someone tell me why this is.

[sid606]

You can accomplish this also with putting 'massupdate' => false, in vardefs.php in module/{name}/vardefs.php in the field you want not to be shown.

[whitewidow]

Is it possible to use this method to add mass update for custom fields?

e.g. I have a custom checkbox field added to the accounts module (saved in accounts_cstm) that I would like to be set for Mass Update in the list view of the accounts module.

I have created a custom Vardef.ext.php file in : custom\extension\modules\accounts\ext\vardefs\vard efs.ext.php

I have established that the 'Options' value is only for selecting which drop-down to assign to it, but I am not sure if you can change this to be true/false or something? Also, does the 'Type' field need to be changed to something else? At present it's set to 'enum'. Am I right in assuming that there are various different 'types'? What is the correct 'type' for a checkbox?

Appreciate any help on this