Enable duplicate merge for custom module

[roblaus]

How can I enable duplicate merge for custom modules? Especially for the standard "name" field? It's not available...

For another field I tried this one in vardefs:
duplicate_merge' => 'enabled',
'duplicate_merge_dom_value' => '0',

and this one in /custom/Extension/modules/new_module/Ext/Vardefs

$dictionary['do01_links']['fields']['whatever']['duplicate_merge'] = true;

but to no avail. What do I miss?

thx

[roblaus]

bump and some more (not to be too short)

[whiteFwolf]

Ah I have the same problem! Did you manage to solve it?

[salesagility]

Use Studio to create your custom fields for use in module builder ... in studio you get the option of turning duplicate merge on or off .... you can also hand craft ... but go studio first

[salesagility]

Aaaaaggggg ... just noticed who the original thread poster was ... apologies Roblaus ..... no intention to patronise ... read the thread header and dived in

[roblaus]

No problem on this side, happens to me all the time.

Need to re-check this anyway - I am kind of lost when it comes to module builder outcome (even though I make sure that it is NOT deployed directly). None of the standard methods work. But I am not a programmer so who knows.

[darcy.rippon]

Did you try to repair / rebuild from the admin area??

I found that the custom modules in 5.2 had the ability to merge duplicates from the detail view, but not from the list view of the module itself.

I had to change the disabled fields to enabled. I left the DOM value as 0. I never went into the dictionary to change anything after I changed the fields to merge enabled. But I did do the repair / rebuild before I tried to merge the custom modules fields.

Again, I'm on 5.2h CE on RHEL, Apache, mysql, php....

[darcy.rippon]

My next question is, how do you enable the Merge Duplicates functionality from the list view of the module? Similar to how Leads and Opportunities works.... Haven't figured that out yet...

[darcy.rippon]

to put the "Merge Duplicates" button on the list view of the custom module, I went into <sugarroot>/modules/custom_module/ and edited the vardefs.php file so that it had the line 'merge_duplicates'=>true at the beginning of the dictionary array:

 $dictionary['custom_module'] = array(
        'table'=>'custom_module',
        'audited'=>true,
        'duplicate_merge'=>true,
        'fields'=>array (...)
); 
  

Then did a quick repair / rebuild from the admin page. And it worked.

I'll make it upgrade safe later, just needed to get the button on there for my client...

This is for 5.2h SugarCE on RHEL, Apache...

[faze]

roblaus,

Did you manage to solve this? I am having the same problem, can get the merge function to appear on list view as shown by darcy but not on the detailed view which shows the "Find Duplicates" option

which file in the /custom/Extension/modules/new_module/Ext/Vardefs path needs updating?

Would be greatful if either of you can put me in the right track

Using v 5.5.3 also new to SugarCRM