logic_hooks - How to tell whether I am in Edit or DetailView...

[vavalos]

I have some fields that I have related to other modules and therefore need to customize how they show (as links) when in DetailVIew and as a ListBox when in EditView.

In other words I have a field in project additional_contact_c that relates to a contact from the list of contacts associated with this project.

When I am in DetailView, I would like a hyperlink to the contact (I've gotten this to work by creating an 'after_retrieve' event - the unwanted side effect is that the field is also altered when going into "Edit" mode.

In edit mode, I will populate this field with a combo box showing all people listed as related to the project, with the entered related contact already selected (I think that I can create this piece)

How do I know whether I am in Edit or Detail mode.

I have printed the list of elements in the $bean (using echo print_r($bean->get_list($order_by = "", $where = "", $row_offset = 0, $limit=-1, $max=-1, $show_deleted = 0)), but I can not find an immediate indicator in any of these elements retrieved.

[andopes]

Hi, vavalos.

If you are using 5.0 version then you can define a 'type' => 'Link' into detailviewdefs.php and 'type' => 'relate' into editviewdefs.php
You can use the views (view.detail.php and view.edit.php) for changing the behavior of the field into specific views.

Cheers.

[anna]

You can check for $_REQUEST['action'] == 'EditView' or $_REQUEST['action'] == 'DetailView' in the hook.

[vavalos]

Anna,

Your suggestion works, thank you very much!

andopes,

Modifying the: view.detail.php and view.edit.php, is this upgrade and Studio safe? I may use this solution for another purpose/

BTW - I only found a view.detail.php in the Views folder for this Module. What creates these files?

[andopes]

Hi, vavalos.

The SugarCRM views are upgrade safe strategies.
I'm just worry about modify views previously defined, but the SugarCRM developers can tell us if we can override these views.
You can use for other purpose, any purpose related to how to render fields in the layouts and change its behavior.

Cheers

[vavalos]

I will look out for future updates that modify these files: view.detail.php and view.edit.php

Thanks