Running the Installer with Custom Fields

[jwhitcraft]

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out a way to run the installer on an already customized version of sugar. The reason I ask is that we currently have need for our development team to be able to just pull down the code and just run the installer to populate some data so they can continue developing on it with out having to have access to our full db with is approaching 40 gb.

Has anyone done this before or am I moving into uncharted territory.


Thanks!

[andopes]

Hi jwhitcraft

Are you John Whitcraft??

Let me make sure I understood the question.
Do you want to make sure it is possible to run the install.php in a pre customized instance of SugarCRM (custom fields, custom modules, custom views, custom whatever) and let install.php populate some critical tables like config, version users, user_preferences etc, without providing development team access to real data?

If this is exactly your question so the answer is "Yes". We do that everytime without big deal.
The unique trick regarding this approach is to dump the test data and custom fields (fields_meta_data) before running install because install.php will drop all default tables and recreate them.
You actually can do that in a pre-customized instance even not linked to any database.
The install.php will create all tables defined in vardefs and TableDictionary without big deal.

Regards