Help with Subpanels Tab?

[ebizusers]

Hi,

This is the first time i am using SugarCRM. My customer want to custoize the Contacts page. Instead of showing subpanel inside the tabs, i want to show each subpanel in a seperate tab. For example, i want to show "History" in a separate tab instead of showing it under the "Activities" tab. Can someone please give me a suggestion? I searched the site and could not find the answer to it. I am using SugarCRM 5.2.0h, Apache, Windows and SQL Server 2005.

Thanks
Ebizuser.

[mapm]

Try to read this first: http://developers.sugarcrm.com/

[datasponge]

Hi ebizusers,

The file <sugarcrm>/include/tabConfig.php contains the original tab definitions. The file <sugarcrm>/custom/include/tabConfig.php (if it exists) is loaded later so overrides definitions in both and since it's in the custom folder it is upgrade-safe.

Look at these files and you should be able to figure it out, but you'll need to add labels and other similar steps for what you want to do. Also, I believe Studio writes this file, so keep a backup of your changes and be careful with studio changes like new modules as they may get automatically added to all your new single function tabs so they're not single function anymore.

Phil

[ebizusers]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.. I did the necessary changes to show history in a new Tab. Now i am having a problem. When i click on the "History" tab for the first time, it's not getting loaded. When i checked the query, there was no problem to it and also the code to display the listview, it is displaying correctly. Why wasn't it shown the first time it was clicked? I have the same problem when i click on the other tab too.. I tried debugging but i am not able to find the problem and the solution. Can someone help me out?

Thanks,
Ebizuser.

[datasponge]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.. I did the necessary changes to show history in a new Tab. Now i am having a problem. When i click on the "History" tab for the first time, it's not getting loaded. When i checked the query, there was no problem to it and also the code to display the listview, it is displaying correctly. Why wasn't it shown the first time it was clicked? I have the same problem when i click on the other tab too.. I tried debugging but i am not able to find the problem and the solution. Can someone help me out?

Thanks,
Ebizuser.

I haven't seen this, but looking at the tabConfig.php file, it lists more modules than sub-panels that get shown. I suspect it loads data from the other modules even when they don't have their own sub-panel. For example, the HIstory subpanel shows data from Notes, Tasks, Calls, Emails, etc.

So if you created a new tabConfig.php and put only "History" in it, it would have no data to populate the sub-panel.

For example, here is the original definition of the Activities tab:

     "LBL_TABGROUP_ACTIVITIES" => array(
        'label' => 'LBL_TABGROUP_ACTIVITIES',
        'modules' => array(
            "Activities",
            "Calendar",
            "Emails",
            "Calls",
            "Meetings",
            "Tasks",
            "Notes",
        )
    ), 
  

Note that it includes modules "Calendar", "Emails", "Calls", "Meetings", "Tasks", "Notes", but they are only shown in the Activities subpanel or the History subpanel (depending on whether they are completed or not).

So try including the child modules (that have no subpanel definitions of their own).

But I don't know what you put in your new tabConfig.php file, so I may be way off base. If that doesn't fix it, feel free to post your new definition.

Phil

[ebizusers]

Hi,
The following is the code that is generated by the Studio when i create a new "History" Tab.

TabConfig.php

<?php
// created: 2010-02-02 04:11:22
$GLOBALS['tabStructure'] = array (
  'LBL_TABGROUP_HOME' => 
  array (
    'label' => 'LBL_TABGROUP_HOME',
    'modules' => 
    array (
      0 => 'Home',
      1 => 'Dashboard',
    ),
  ),
  'LBL_TABGROUP_TOOLS' => 
  array (
    'label' => 'LBL_TABGROUP_TOOLS',
    'modules' => 
    array (
      0 => 'Feeds',
      1 => 'iFrames',
    ),
  ),
  'LBL_TABGROUP_REPORTS' => 
  array (
    'label' => 'LBL_TABGROUP_REPORTS',
    'modules' => 
    array (
      0 => 'undefined',
      1 => 'Dashboard',
    ),
  ),
  'LBL_GROUPTAB3_1265004998' => 
  array (
    'label' => 'LBL_GROUPTAB3_1265004998',
    'modules' => 
    array (
      0 => 'Calendar',
      1 => 'Emails',
      2 => 'Meetings',
      3 => 'Tasks',
      4 => 'Notes',
      5 => 'Calls',
    ),
  ),
  'LBL_GROUPTAB5_1265004998' => 
  array (
    'label' => 'LBL_GROUPTAB5_1265004998',
    'modules' => 
    array (
      0 => 'Activities',
      1 => 'Calendar',
      2 => 'Emails',
      3 => 'Meetings',
      4 => 'Tasks',
      5 => 'Notes',
      6 => 'Calls',
    ),
  ),
  
);
?>

I then changed the following code in SubPanelTilesTab.php

Previous code

/* Move history to same tab as activities */
        if(in_array('history', $tabs) && in_array('activities', $tabs))
        {
            foreach($groups as $mainTab => $group)
            {
            	if(in_array('activities', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules'])))
                {
                	if(!in_array('history', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules'])))
                    {
                    	/* Move hist from there to here */
                        $groups[$mainTab]['modules'] []= 'history';
                    }
                }
                else if(false !== ($i = array_search('history', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules']))))
                {
                    unset($groups[$mainTab]['modules'][$i]);
                    if(empty($groups[$mainTab]['modules']))
                    {
                    	unset($groups[$mainTab]);
                    }
                }                
            }
        }

Changed Code

/* Move history to same tab as activities */
        if(in_array('history', $tabs) && in_array('activities', $tabs))
        {
            foreach($groups as $mainTab => $group)
            {
     /*
     * Commented the following code for not adding the history to where activities is present.
     */

//                if(in_array('activities', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules'])))
//                {
//                	if(!in_array('history', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules'])))
//                    {
//                    	/* Move hist from there to here */
//                        $groups[$mainTab]['modules'] []= 'history';
//                    }
//                }
//                else if(false !== ($i = array_search('history', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules']))))
//                {
//                    unset($groups[$mainTab]['modules'][$i]);
//                    if(empty($groups[$mainTab]['modules']))
//                    {
//                    	unset($groups[$mainTab]);
//                    }
//                }
                // Code added  to assign history to "History" Tab
                if ($mainTab == "History")
                {
                    $groups[$mainTab]['modules'] []= 'history';
                }
            }
        }

These are the only changes that i did. Even when i rollbacked the issue still persists.. Please help me out..

Thanks

[datasponge]

I've never edited SubPanelTilesTab.php, so don't have experience with this. But if you rolled back your changes, then it should have restored the prior behavior.

I can only point out the obvious to make sure you do a Quick Repair and Rebuild after editing any custom files.

Phil

[LegalPlans]

I had the same issue. You need to comment all that code out.

/* Move history to same tab as activities */
//        if(in_array('history', $tabs) && in_array('activities', $tabs))
//        {
//            foreach($groups as $mainTab => $group)
//            {
     /*
     * Commented the following code for not adding the history to where activities is present.
     */

//                if(in_array('activities', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules'])))
//                {
//                	if(!in_array('history', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules'])))
//                    {
//                    	/* Move hist from there to here */
//                        $groups[$mainTab]['modules'] []= 'history';
//                    }
//                }
//                else if(false !== ($i = array_search('history', array_map('strtolower', $group['modules']))))
//                {
//                    unset($groups[$mainTab]['modules'][$i]);
//                    if(empty($groups[$mainTab]['modules']))
//                    {
//                    	unset($groups[$mainTab]);
//                    }
//                }
                // Code added  to assign history to "History" Tab
//                if ($mainTab == "History")
//                {
//                    $groups[$mainTab]['modules'] []= 'history';
//                }
//            }
//        }