Editing Layouts

[seismicmike]

Hey, we've setup a few multi-select boxes on our advanced search forms that we'd like to use to search. The only trouble is they seem to have a fixed width so that they won't show all of the text in the box.

How can I change the width of the fields?

[andopes]

Hi Mike

You can either:
1. override the file include/SugarFields/Fields/Multienum/SearchView.tpl modifying the style='width:150' or
2. copy the folder include/SugarFields/Fields/Multienum/ into a new one defining a new field template. his way you can modify that attribute in a new field template without modify the core file. You will need to ad the attribute

 'type' => 'Newfield', 
  

into searchdefs.php if you choose the second option.

Cheers

[Angel]

I ran into a similar problem before. Sugar, for reasons unknown to me, sets the default length of those type of fields to 100. Unfortunately, it also doesn't let you control the width through the UI.

I solved my problem was through changing the LEN parameter for the corresponding field in vardefs.php

[seismicmike]

Hmmm good suggestions.

Andopes, your #1 didn't seem to have any affect, so I might try #2, but I don't know...

Angel: I wasn't able to find the entries for my custom fields in the vardefs.php file. I'm assuming they would be under that module, right? So if it's a Contact field, it would be under /modules/Contacts/vardefs.php, right?

Thanks for your help so far.

[Angel]

Take a look at the fields_meta_data table. It should contain the field definition.

My situation was related to a default field on a custom module, so it was in vardefs.php instead. But yours should appear in fields_meta_data.