Field dependancies

[cactussean]

Does anyone know if the following is possible...

We have a number of varying products and services, and each has varying types of information that is important to making the sale. With that said, I don't want to overwhelm sales people with my opportunities containing tons and tons of fields, that they may or may not need to populate for a given opportunity they are working.

Ideally, I want to only show certain fields when they are relevant to the opportunity. I would identify this by opportunity type. So for discussion sake, lets say I have a pet store (I apologize in advance for this lame example but I am a little low on creativity today)....

If someone is interested in buying a fish, I would select "fish" as my opportunity type. When that is selected I would then see field to identify "type of water" with values for fresh or salr. Now if my opportunity type was "dog", I wouldn't see the "type of water" field, but may see fields to identify if the dog has it's papers, is house broken and so on.

I would like to use this same logic in other modules as well like campaigns, tasks, accounts, and so on. I feel that keeping the interface simpler by only showing relevant info is going to increase user adoption in all these various areas.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

[andopes]

The DevToolKit fits your needs.
Have a look on extension Dynamic Panels.
The link to the DevToolKit project is in my signature.

Kind regards

[cactussean]

Perfect! TY!

[moschap]

Hi Andre,

It seems like your DevToolkit would only work for sugarcrm version 5 and above, i have a similar situation but for version 4.5.1i. The Gender field in a custom i developed depends on another preceding dropdown. How would i apply this to sugarcrm 4.5.1