Passing Data To Custom Field in SubPanel

[banning]

Ok im sure some people here are thinking here we go again someone else asking... im sorry i've been using SugarCRM for like 2 days and its REALLY important that i figure this program out asap...

--problem

when you are on a contact "profile" page if you will... there are subpanels below. On the "Opportunities" panel (when creating an entry using the quickcreate) I have entered a custom field for entering and associating a contact name to the opportunity.

NOW i realize that if you create an opp from this page it will associate to that contact BUT the client wants to see a disabled input field prepopluated with the contact name.

SO how do i do this... i keep trying to find a solution for it and can't really seem to find anything. Some people say make a new widget others say class still others seem to think all you have to do is manipulate an array. I need help it would be nice if it was as easy and modifing one of the php fields under the Opportunities module directory.

Thank you for your help.

[andopes]

Hi Banning

You need to:
create a relate field (Contacts);
add this field on detailview and editview;
create a custom controller.php for Opportunities and implement the method action_editview. Inside this method you need to check if $this->bean->id is empty. If so, then you have to check if parent is a Contact. Then you need to populate relate field with contact_id and contact_name.
update editviewdefs.php in order to hid the buttons for relate field and also to make it read only.

Regards