Layout Save & Deploy blows away customCode lines

[datasponge]

Per http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32003 and http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...ght=html+links

you can add external links by editing custom/modules/Accounts/metadata/detailviewdefs.php

I tried this and it works great.

But when I use Admin panel to edit Accounts Layouts and click Save & Deploy, the original basic definition without the customCode line is written back to this file blowing away the link.

Is there a more standard way to do this where it will be retained?

Should the files under metadata never be edited?

Is this a bug?

Thanks

Phil

[ptemplin7]

I think that you need to make adjustments in the custom/Extension/modules/.... directory.

Dig around in the Wiki (developers area) for more info. You should be able to add to the detailview there to extend the custom/modules/.../detailview.php.

Specifically, look at the documentation for the one-to-many relate there is a section that extends the editview to make the custom field connect.

Hope this helps, Good Luck,
Paris

[datasponge]

Thanks for the pointers.

I couldn't find anything definitive in the Wiki, although I have to read it more carefully, but your tip on custom/extension/modules/... vs custom/modules/... prompted more research.

The upshot appears to be that Save & Deploy propagates the customCode line from custom/working/modules to custom/modules where Sugar reads it to define the link. So if you edit custom/modules/... without editing custom/working/modules/... then your changes will be lost on Save & Deploy.

So you have to edit the files in the custom/working/modules/... path, then Save & Deploy for that Layout and it will work.

See http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...d=1#post106820 for specifically what I did and how it behaved.

Phil