Notes in list view - missing contact first name

[markp]

We are working on upgrading our Sugar installation from 4.5.1 to 5. In version 5, in the History subpanel, the Contact column now only shows a last name for Notes. Archived emails continue to show first and last name, but Notes only show a last name. This is strange to me, since version 4.5.1 showed first and last name for Notes.

This is true for our test installation, as well as the online SugarCRM demo. Does everyone else see this in their version 5 install as well?

Apologies if this has already been covered or entered as a bug, but I couldn't find it when searching.

[kbrill]

It is a bug (#23411 to be exact) and the fix seems to be to edit the modules/Notes/Vardefs.php file and change

  'contact_name'=>
     array(
        'name'=>'contact_name',
        'rname'=>'last_name',
        'id_name'=>'contact_id',
        'vname'=>'LBL_CONTACT_NAME',
        'type'=>'relate',
        'link'=>'contact',
        'join_name'=>'contacts',
        'isnull'=>'true',
        'module'=>'Contacts',
        'source'=>'non-db',
        ), 
  

to this

  'contact_name'=>
     array(
        'name'=>'contact_name',
        'rname'=>'last_name',
        'id_name'=>'contact_id',
        'vname'=>'LBL_CONTACT_NAME',
        'type'=>'relate',
        'link'=>'contact',
        'join_name'=>'contacts',
        'isnull'=>'true',
        'module'=>'Contacts',
        'source'=>'non-db',
        'db_concat_fields' => array(
            0 => 'first_name',
            1 => 'last_name'
            ),        
        ), 
  

[kbrill]

Just a note, after you make those changes you need to run a quick repair to make them live.

[markp]

Thanks very much for your help, and for providing a fix. Works great.