Unusual problem with required fields

**tburns** · 2010-05-20, 03:39 AM

I'm running the Community Edition, 5.5.2. For some reason, the required fields for the Opportunites module (name, account name, date closed) have ceased to be required - it's possible to create a record with all of these blank.

In addition, the Account Name field seems to have disappeared from the "fields" editor in Studio (although it is still present in the Edit, Detail, and List views).

Operating system is Linux (2.6.33). Apache 2.2.15, PHP 5.2.13, MySQL 5.1.30.

I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

**salesagility** · 2010-05-20, 05:28 AM

I presume you've been doing a lot of changes using Studio ... if you need to roll back you can goto studio>module>layout>layoutview>view history and roll back to a point in time or do the first four clicks and restore default

**tburns** · 2010-05-20, 02:36 PM

I figured out what the problem was - it should perhaps be filed as a bug in SugarCRM.

I had added some fields which had in the label a single quote (') used as an apostrophe for abbreviation (an "amount received to date" field, where "received" was abbreviated to "rec'd". The label is passed apparently unmodified to the addToValidate() function, so the single quote is interpreted as terminating that string, breaking the code...

I actually noticed it when I opened up the javascript console to work on something unrelated.