making billing address required

[dangeorge6]

Hi,

I need to make the billing address fields required for Accounts. I have v 5.2.0j and have installed sugar on my own server. I looked at the wiki method here http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.p...n_SugarCRM_5.0. Problem is, it wants me to edit a file in {sugarroot}/custom/Extension/modules/{module name}/Ext/Vardefs and there is no {sugarroot}/custom/Extension/modules/Accounts folder on my installation. I only see a {sugarroot}/custom/Extension/modules/Administration folder. I tried creating the directories I needed but when I repaired, Studio would no longer load. Why don't I have the folders specified?

Danny

[Angel]

You need to create both the folder structure and the file (assuming it doesn't exist).

Not sure why creating it would break your Studio feature, but what happens if you delete the folder you created? Does it then make Studio functional?

[dangeorge6]

Ok, so I built the {sugarroot}/custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Vardefs directory and put a file in there called RequiredVars.php. The file looks like this:

 <?php $dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['billing_address_street']['required']=true; ?>
 <?php $dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['billing_address_city']['required']=true; ?>
  <?php $dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['billing_address_state']['required']=true; ?>
   <?php $dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['billing_address_postalcode']['required']=true; ?>  

I then repaired extensions. It reparied fine and Studio has no issues, however no change has taken place. There are no red asterisks near the above fields, and you can create an account without these fields. Please help.

[Angel]

Name your file vardefs.ext.php, then rebuild. Although, you might need to do some additional work as "address" fields are treated a bit different than other fields.

If it doesn't work, try changing your vardefs.ext.php file to reference a different field, like title, then rebuild, to test and make sure that the syntax is correct.

[ros.vol]

Hello,

You may set $displayParams with "required" value within your editviewdefs.php

[dangeorge6]

I changed the filename to vardefs.ext.php and repaired. Still no luck. I then tried to make the website field required instead in the vardefs.ext.php file. Repaired. No luck getting the website field to be required.

Earlier I did try playing around with that editviewdefs.php, putting in "required = true" but no luck. Any more ideas? How come I never had the folders I was supposed to have to begin with for the extensions/modules/Accounts?

[Angel]

Couple of things...

1. "Accounts" should be singular (Account)

2. You will need to do a bit more than just the above in order to get it to apply the setting to the billing address field. Per my previous reply, address fields are handled differently, so the rules in the wiki article don't apply. In short, you will need to create a copy of the address field type, make your customization there, then define the address fields as the new address field type.

3. The directories aren't there because the install process only creates the directories it needs to operate normally without any customizations. It is not abnormal behavior that they do not exist and the fact that they weren't there doesn't indicate that there is a problem.

[salvinitin24]

Hi,

I know it is March 2011 and I am too late for this reply but I cant help it because I started using sugar 5 months back.

Well, I am also using v 5.2.0j CE and I was able to make address fields required. SMARTY template at \include\SugarFields\Fields\Address\en_us.EditView .tpl explains how to show required symbol. We have to use 'required' => array('billing_address_street','billing_address_ci ty','billing_address_state','billing_address_posta lcode'),
instead of just 'required' => true

Here is what I did.
1) edit (copy & paste modules\Accounts\metadata\editviewdefs.php if you don't have it) at custom\modules\Accounts\metadata\editviewdefs.php to

 'lbl_address_information' => 
      array (
        0 => 
        array (
          0 => 
          array (
            'name' => 'billing_address_street',
            'hideLabel' => true,
            'type' => 'address',
            'displayParams' => 
            array (
              'required' => array('billing_address_street','billing_address_city','billing_address_state','billing_address_postalcode'),
              'key' => 'billing',
              'rows' => 2,
              'cols' => 30,
              'maxlength' => 150,
            ),
            'label' => 'LBL_BILLING_ADDRESS_STREET',
          ), 
  

then do quick repair and rebuild.

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks,
Nitin