Please expand on "customCode" array key

[sugarAdam]

Hello all. This post is a request to do some additional work when needing to append additional information along with an HTML element on an Edit form/page.
I visited the SugarCRM IRC Channel, and Community Member eggsurplus did mention that he has also requested this feature, so my apologies if this is a duplicate request.

Anyway, below is the use case:
In a custom/MODULE/metadata/editviewdefs.php file, I'd like to customize the code so that it appends a value (to go next to) an HTML input form element on the edit screen.

When I modify the array, adding the key "customCode", I know it will replace the expected rendering of the specified Form Element.

How do I get the expected rendering PLUS some other text or expression value?

Note: If the team can get it working, can it be released as a plugin to run in the older versions? Currently we are running 6.2.2 Enterprise Edition.

Thanks,
Adam

[kbrill]

I am not 100% sure I understand but if you look in modules/Users/metadata/editviewdefs.php you will see that some of the fields have custom codes like this

 'customCode' => '{if $IS_ADMIN}@@FIELD@@{else}{$STATUS_READONLY}{/if}', 
  

and so @@FIELD@@ seems to render the original field code and then you coudl add anything else you want after that like

 'customCode' => '@@FIELD@@ <input type=text name=extracode>', 
  

[eggsurplus]

And that is really awesome! That is one pain point gone. Thanks Ken for pointing that out!

[sugarAdam]

I am not 100% sure I understand but if you look in modules/Users/metadata/editviewdefs.php you will see that some of the fields have custom codes like this

 'customCode' => '{if $IS_ADMIN}@@FIELD@@{else}{$STATUS_READONLY}{/if}', 
  

and so @@FIELD@@ seems to render the original field code and then you coudl add anything else you want after that like

 'customCode' => '@@FIELD@@ <input type=text name=extracode>', 
  

Hi Ken, thanks for the advice. However, using @@FIELD@@ as you specified did not work. It printed @@FIELD@@ to the screen. Then I tried putting in the actual field name (first in all lower case, and then in all upper case) between the 2 (double at-signs) delimeters. Got same result. it simply printed whatever was between the @@ delimeters to the screen.

I then ran grep to find any other possible instance of 'customCode' => '@@ and there was none, so in my setup I have no reference.

Version is Enterprise 6.2.2, and the file I'm trying to use it in, is custom/modules/Opportunities/metadata/editviewdefs.php

Thanks,
Adam

[kbrill]

Let me look into that, it maybe that someone put in special code to resolve that. I know there is a way to get the field in there.

[sugarAdam]

Hi Ken, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm currently in the IRC channel as "nylinuxhelp" - and eggsurplus is also there.

If it saves you any time, eggsurplus mentioned that your proposal (possibly) won't work in my version of Enterprise 6.2.2

Thanks,
Adam

[kbrill]

No, I just found that its only available in 6.4.0 (all versions). I dont see a way to do this in previous versions without writing some sort of smarty plugin

[kbrill]

I havnt worked out if it works everywhere but it looks like it does. It's code is in the file include/Smarty/plugins/function.sugar_evalcolumn.php