Displaying email under the Member Organizations account subpanel

[baylis]

Hello all,

This is my first post here on the SugarCRM forums and I'm a new user to SugarCRM CE. We've just recently installed the latest version. I'm currently trying to customize the Member Organization Subpanel for the Accounts module and I'm unable to display the "Email" field (it's not in the hidden category for me to make visible.)

I think it's because there is no email field listed under the Account Fields in Studio, however when creating an account it does have an option to add an email address for that account.

Any ideas/workarounds?

Kind regards,

Todd

[datasponge]

Welcome Todd,

I hadn't realized that 5.5 added the ability to configure subpanels through Studio! In 5.2.0 you could not do that. Thanks for pointing that out to me!

Anyway, now that I checked that out, it appears that only the fields defined within the Accounts module itself are available to put on the subpanel through Studio, which means you'll have to code it the hard way. Email addresses are managed in their own module and related to Accounts and Contacts, so you'll have to add a link field.

The Contacts subpanel shows the email address on the Accounts Detail View, so you can look at that as an example. If you can read and write php code, see the file <sugarroot>/modules/Contacts/metadata/subpanels/ForAccounts.php. It contains a section for email1 that defines the entry you need.

Since I just learned of the new studio feature, I don't know exactly where studio saves the subpanel files, but it should be somewhere under <sugarroot>/custom possibly under metadata or under Extensions. I don't have time to poke around right now. But you can save your new subpanel through studio, find it under <sugarroot>/custom and add a section like in the ForAccounts.php and it will show it.

Good luck.

Phil