How to replace "State" TextBox with DropDown

[RADIX]

Hi

We've just had SugarCE-5.5.0 installed in our company and we want to customize it according to our needs.

I want to replace State's TextBox with a State DropDown.
I already created a State DropDown using DropDown Editor, but I couldn't find out the way to replace the State TextBox with that DropDown.

I found some similar threads while googling, but they don't seem to talk about the same Sugar version we have here.
Hence, files and folders structure isn't the same when talking about going through files and paths to modify code.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you in advance.

[davidboris]

Hello,

If you have address block and you want to use dropdown for state field, you have to break address block and then you can use customCode to replace state text field.

[RADIX]

Hi david,

Thank you for considering my thread.

you have to break address block and then you can use customCode to replace state text field

Can you please go through more details?

Thanks

[davidboris]

Hello,

By breaking the address block I meant, you have first drop/remove the address block from edit view using studio.

Then you will no longer able to get them back from studio.

Then you have to place street, city, state, country fields separately and then you can change state textfield into drop down.

[RADIX]

Thank you david for your reply,

I think I can try what you suggested. But we already have many contacts in Sugar database and therefore I think we might lose address data of these contacts if I remove the original address fields and replace them with custom fields.
In this case, how can I copy the contents of the address fields (which exist originally), into the new address fields (which I need to create), without having to repeat this procedure manually for each contact?

Thank you.

[davidboris]

Hello,

I never meant remove field from database. I meant remove from editiview through studio and and place broken block's fields one by one using studio.

[RADIX]

Hi,

Yes I got what you meant, you said I have to go to :
Studio -> Contacts -> Layout -> EditView
But here, I only can see two blocks :
"Primary Address Street" and "Alternate Address Street"
While actually, each block of them displays the following fields to the user :
"Primary Address"
"City"
"State"
"Postal Code"
"Country"

So, I guess if I remove "Primary Address Street" and "Alternate Address Street", all those fields will be removed, then I can replace them with the following fields in Studio->editview :

"My customized Primary Address Street New Field"
"Primary Address City"
"My Primary Address State DropDown"
"Primary Address Postal Code"
"Primary Address Country"

But this way, user won't be able to see the old content of both "Primary Address Street" and "Primary Address State" original fields that I replaced. Am I wrong?

How can I get to link both of the new fields with the DataBase fields that were linked to "Primary Address" and "State" original fields?

Thanks.

[davidboris]

Hello,

When you remove something from Studio -> Contacts -> Layout -> EditView, it wont remove the field from database. It will simply remove field from edit view. So you will have all those 5 fields in available fields list to place again.

[RADIX]

Hi,

When you remove something from Studio -> Contacts -> Layout -> EditView, it wont remove the field from database

Sure it won't, I didn't say the contrary.

But new fields I will create and add in EditView won't automatically gain links to the DB fields of the old removed fields (of EditView). I need to create their links manually.

I don't know if I was clear.

I can explain further if necessary

Many thanks

[davidboris]

Hello,

Why do you want to create new custom fields while You can use the default fields?