Having Trouble extending vardefs for Accounts

[chrislynch8]

Hi,

I want to extend my vardefs to add a field to the Mass Update of Accounts.

In custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Vardefs/ I created a file called vardefs.ext.php

And I included the Following

 <?php
$dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;
?>  

I rebuild the extension but nothing changed on the Mass Update for Accounts. I found another thread here that had Account instead of Accounts for I tried that it rebuilt the Extensions and that didn't work either.

In the custom/Extension/modules/<ModuleName>/Ext/Vardefs/ I have two other files from Module updates that I installed. Would these affect my vardefs.ext.php???

Rgds
Chris

[dekleinemedia]

Hi,

I want to extend my vardefs to add a field to the Mass Update of Accounts.

In custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Vardefs/ I created a file called vardefs.ext.php

And I included the Following

 <?php
$dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;
?>  

I rebuild the extension but nothing changed on the Mass Update for Accounts. I found another thread here that had Account instead of Accounts for I tried that it rebuilt the Extensions and that didn't work either.

In the custom/Extension/modules/<ModuleName>/Ext/Vardefs/ I have two other files from Module updates that I installed. Would these affect my vardefs.ext.php???

Rgds
Chris

Hi Chris,

You tried to edit this field in Studio? There you can set massupdate enabled for your field.

Otherwise;

When you go to your sugar folder modules\Accounts you find the vardefs.php. In here you can see that $dictionary['Account'].
Therefore you have to add this line in vardefs.ext.php;

$dictionary['Account']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;

Do a Quick Repair and Rebuild and it should have to work. You have Developer Mode enabled?

[chrislynch8]

Hi Thanks for teh reply.

Yes I have developer mode enabled.

I found that I was able to set the custom field to appear in the Mass Update in Studio, but I still can't get the vardefs.ext.php to work. I will use the studio way but I would like to get to the bottom of this issue.

I on version 5.0.0j Pro

[shamimwilson]

hi,

What is the type of the field that you are trying to mass update.
generally mass update works for the dropdown type or date type fields.

[dekleinemedia]

Hi Chris,

Have you tried to add an other custom field to your Massupdate?

[chrislynch8]

Hi Thanks for the replies.

The field is a custom dropdown. I haven't tried to add another field yet. I will do that now.

But I also had trouble trying to create a custom vardefs for the opportunity module that made the Account field not required, but this didn't work either.

I will try to do another field and see what happens

Thanks
Chris

[eescribano]

Remember that the code is not the code you worte

 <?php
$dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;
?>  

but this code

 <?php
$dictionary['Account']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;
?>  

Is Account in singular no Accounts as dekleinemedia said...

[chrislynch8]

So tried another field and nothing. I also make a mistake in the vardefs I put in => instead of = to see if it was being read and it caused an error.

So what else can I try to do from here to see if it works is there something simple I can do like hide a normal field ?

Rgds
Chris

[chrislynch8]

Remember that the code is not the code you worte

 <?php
$dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;
?>  

but this code

 <?php
$dictionary['Account']['fields']['pr_account_status_c']['massupdate'] = true;
?>  

Is Account in singular no Accounts as dekleinemedia said...

I tried this also in my first thread. I had it wrong first and found a thread that said it must be Account

Rgds
Chris

[shamimwilson]

Hi,
in the custom/extension/module/modulename/Ext/Vardefs/vardefs.ext.php

add the field in the following formate


$dictionary['modulename']['fields']['account_list1_c'] =
array (
'name' => 'account_list1_c',
'vname' => 'LBL_ACCOUNT_LIST1_C',
'type' => 'enum',
'options'=> 'Cust_Account_list',
'len' => '100',
'audited'=>true,
'merge_filter' => 'enabled',
'source' => 'non-db',
'massupdate' => true
);

rebuild extension.

hope this will help