Implement Add Invitees in custom module

[karenAndy]

Hello SugarPeople!

So the feature I was trying to implement is this:

I have a custom module called Journal, in this Journal I will save the register of Calls, Meetings, Emails, etc. But I have to be able to add several users and several contacts to each journal (similar to the Meetings module). I tried to use the Meetings module but all I really need is to show the list of Contacs and Users and when I press the name of each Contact and/or User in that list, it has to redirect me to the Contact or User detail view.

Bottom line, I do need the functionality of Add Invite of the Meetings module, but for the display all I need is a list where the names are links to the respective detail view.

Is this to difficult to accomplish?

[karenAndy]

Can someone help me or at least give me a hint on what to look please, I would really appreciate this!

I'm running Sugar Version 6.1.2 (Build 5555)

[karenAndy]

Hello again!

I have thought about how to perform this action and I came up with a few ideas:

1. Add a dynamic field like email in contacts, but instead of inserting and email it will look for the posible contacts. I think this is harder to perform (correct me if I'm mistaken).

2. Create a MultiSelect-Related field that allows me to select several contacts. This would be my ideal solution, but again I don't know how to make this feature.

I would really appreciate if someone can give me a hint on this.

[rafael.q.g@hotmail.com]

A easy way to have this invitation module is creat a custom module, and then create a relation ship with contacts and leads. Then you can select multiple concats/leads at once.

Then after you can program a custom function that reads all the related contacts and send mails to them.

Just a suggestion, there is external tools as inbox25 that already do it.

Then you can choose, develop you own solution or use an existing.

[karenAndy]

Hi Rafael,

Thanks for your response, but I'm really not looking for the send emails functionality, I know that I can create a 1:n or n:m relationship between my Custom Module and the Contacts Module but I don`t want to add the contacts throw Subpanel.

As I said, what I really want is to add a MultiSelect Related field, so I can choose the contacts that where in a Conference or something like that, I don't need to relate the Contacts to my Custom Module, I just want to say these are the people that were at the meeting (a Journal of meetings, calls, emails, conferences, etc).

But thanks for your response

[rafael.q.g@hotmail.com]

Thanks for your explanation.
I think a possible solution to implement what you describle is to create a enum field that allow multi select, using some code like that in your vardefs file.

  
 'contacts_ids' => 
                          array (
                            'name' => 'contacts_ids',
                            'type' => 'enum',
                            'label' => 'LBL_Contacts',
                                                'isMultiSelect' => true,
                            'function' => 
                            array (
                              'name' => 'get_contacts_array', // you have to program this function
                              'params' => 
                              array (
                                0 => false,
                              ),
                            ),
                          ),