how to add date created field in the history subpanel

[john.luat]

Hello,

I would like to ask how can i add a "date created" in the list view of the history subpanel? thanks in advance.

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Windows Server 2003
SugarCRM 5.2.0g
IIS 6.0
PHP 5.2.9-2
MySQL 5.0.51a

[datasponge]

Hi John,

See http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55691

This has instructions for adding a separate datetime field to notes and creating a custom History subpanel that shows meaningful dates in the list view for all modules rather than date_modified.

Creating a custom Notes datetime field allows you can set the actual date and time of a particular action even when it did not occur when the note was created or modified.

If you really want to display date_created instead, you can skip those steps. There are also several other good threads referenced there that describe simply replacing date_modified with date_created.

Phil

[john.luat]

hello phil,

isn't there any way i can achieve this customization without doing much coding? i would like to retain the date modified field and add the date created field.

[datasponge]

hello phil,

isn't there any way i can achieve this customization without doing much coding? i would like to retain the date modified field and add the date created field.

Depends how you define "much coding" but there are several issues that cause coding to be required:

You can't change subpanel definitions through Studio, so to be upgrade-safe, you'll need to create an extension, which requires coding.

Worse yet, you're dealing with the History module, which aggregates several modules. So right off the bat you have to make changes to handle all those modules.



To simply add the date_created in addition to date_modified, you still need to add that column to the columns array in your new history subpanel definition in code. But that's a lot simpler than changing the columns if you're willing to tackle the code.

Phil