vardef.ext.php not being merged with other files?

[ravensorb]

I am not sure where to post this, so I thought I would start here. Here is the situation. I have customized the Contact entity by adding a 1-to-many relationships with a custom entity. This is working fine. The issue comes when I try to manual customization.

I am following the instructions found here

http://developers.sugarcrm.com/docs/...r.html#9000029

I create a file called Updated_vardefs.php with my customizations in it and then I do a quick repair and rebuild, everything seems to work, but the vardefs.ext.php file does not contain the merged result of my customizations from the UI and the Updated_vardefs.php -- could this be bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

[andopes]

Can you let us know the file you created and its content?

Cheers

[ravensorb]

Sure, it is a very simple modification right now

<?php

$dictionary["Contact"]["fields"]["primary_address_country"]["type"] = 'enum';
$dictionary["Contact"]["fields"]["primary_address_country"]["options"] = 'countries_dom';

$dictionary["Contact"]["fields"]["alt_address_country"]["type"] = 'enum';
$dictionary["Contact"]["fields"]["alt_address_country"]["options"] = 'countries_dom';

?>

if I add this same code directly to the main vardefs.php -- everything works perfect.

I am following this post (I think it is one of your)

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56333

[andopes]

Where exactly did you add this code? Let us know the full path of the file.

Regards

[ravensorb]

I am pretty sure I have them in the correct location:

/var/www/sugarcrm/custom/modules/Contacts/Ext/Vardefs$ ls -FCla
total 16
drwxrwsrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 2010-02-15 19:32 ./
drwxrwsrwx 5 www-data www-data 4096 2010-02-15 20:31 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 657 2010-02-15 19:33 custom.php*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 1835 2010-02-15 23:14 vardefs.ext.php*

[andopes]

You need to add into:
/var/www/sugarcrm/custom/Extension/modules/Contacts/Ext/Vardefs/

Cheers

[edwaa]

I'm following the directions here and not having any luck.

File I've created:

/custom/Extension/modules/Accounts/Ext/Vardefs/updated_vardefs.php

Contents of updated_vardefs.php:

<?php

    $dictionary['Accounts']['fields']['id']['len'] = 50;

?>

To execute these changes I'm going to Admin -> Repair -> Quick Repair and Rebuild.

The summary textarea that explains what changes will be made shows the 'id' field in 'Accounts' being changed to a length of 36 (I've already manually changed the field length in the db table):

/* Table : accounts */
/*COLUMNS*/
/*MISMATCH WITH DATABASE - id -  ROW [name] => 'id'  [type] => 'char'  [len] => '50'  */
/* VARDEF - id -  ROW[name] => 'id'  [vname] => 'LBL_ID'  [type] => 'char'  [required] => 'true'  [reportable] => '1'  [comment] => 'Unique identifier'  [dbType] => 'id'  [len] => '36'  */
/* INDEXES */
ALTER TABLE accounts   modify column id char(36)  NOT NULL ;

Any ideas?