Make standard fields required

[imrankha]

Hi all,
I have looked and looked and tried to make standard fields required, looked at every wiki or tutorial and they seem not to work with my Sugar 5.2 PRO installation.
Can anyone please help me as to how to make a standard field required in sugar.
Thank a lot.

[jmertic]

Make sure you 'Clear Template Data Cache' and 'Clear Vardefs Data Cache' from the Admin->Repair screen after making any vardef changes.

[letrium]

Hi!

You must to edit 'editviewdefs.php' and add display parameter "require" for needed fields.

Wait some minutes i'll post an example.

[letrium]

Hi!

Something like this:

array(array('name'=>'YOUR_FIELD_NAME', 'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true)) ),

[imrankha]

hmmm tried that, and didnt work. It will save when the field is empty. Even the red asterisk did not appear. I did the repair and rebuild,cleared the template data cache etc and tried again and still the empty fields save fine??

[imrankha]

I just needed to make fields like website,etc required but cant yet. Would appreciate any help. Thanks

[letrium]

I will help find the solution, please wait for a monday post.

[dindara]

Hi Imrankha,

If you want to create a new required field, you can do it from
"Admin -> Studio -> <module_name> -> Fields -> "Add New Fields" -> check on "Required Field" button -> save"

If you want to change an existing field from "not required" to "required":
1. Go to 'modules\Project\vardefs.php'
2. Look for the field you want to change, if you find ''required' => false,", change it to
"'required' => true,", but if don't find any "'required' => false," line, then add "'required' => true,".
For example, if I want to make "Description" field in "Project" module to become "required" field:
1. Open 'modules\Project\vardefs.php'
2. Change:

		'description' => array(
			'name' => 'description',
			'vname' => 'LBL_DESCRIPTION',
			'required' => false,   <<<<<<< Change this to "true"
			'type' => 'text',
			'comment' => 'Project description'
		),

to

		'description' => array(
			'name' => 'description',
			'vname' => 'LBL_DESCRIPTION',
			'required' => true,
			'type' => 'text',
			'comment' => 'Project description'
		),

3. Admin -> Quick Repair and Rebuild
And there you go, you have yourself a new "required" field.

[letrium]

Hi,dindara!

AS i understood the question was for fields that not defined in vardefs.

And what to do for 'assigned_user_name' field?

[dindara]

Hi Letrium,

Please corret me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the original post mentioned something about for "fields that not defined in vardefs".
Anyway, you are correct, my previous post was not complete, I left two points behind (I copied it from my manual book I created for my engineers), below are the two points I left behind previously.

If the field you want to change is not in vardefs.php, please make sure whether or not your module had been changed, since the location of the file you will work on are different. Then follow the steps below,

A. CUSTOMIZED MODULE
1. Open 'custom\modules\<module_name>\metadata\editviewdef s.php
2. Look for the field you want to change, insert " 'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true), "
For example:
If you want to change "Refered By" field in "Leads" module, go to 'custom\modules\<module_name>\metadata\editviewdef s.php'
Look for 'refered_by' field, you would see:

		array (
		  'name' => 'refered_by',
		  'label' => 'LBL_REFERED_BY',
		),

insert " 'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true), "

		array (
		  'name' => 'refered_by',
		  'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true)
		  'label' => 'LBL_REFERED_BY',
		),

3. Admin -> Quick Repair and Rebuild
And there you go, you have yourself a new "required" field.


B. UNCUSTOMIZED MODULE
If the field you want to change is not in vardef.php, and you haven't modified/customized the outlook of the module you want to change, you won't have 'custom\modules\<module_name>' directory. Then you need to change the original editviewdefs.php file located in 'modules\<module_name>\metadata'.
1. Open 'modules\<module_name>\metadata\editviewdefs.php
2. Look for the field you want to change, change the code with " array('name'=>'field_name', 'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true))),"
For example:
If you want to change "Office Phone" field in the unmodified "Contacts" module, go to 'modules\Contacts\metadata\editviewdefs.php'
Look for 'phone_work' field, you would see:

array (
    array (
      'name' => 'first_name',
      'customCode' => '{html_options name="salutation" options=$fields.salutation.options selected=$fields.salutation.value}&nbsp;<input name="first_name" size="25" maxlength="25" type="text" value="{$fields.first_name.value}">',
    ),
    'phone_work',
),

Change it to:

array (
    array (
      'name' => 'first_name',
      'customCode' => '{html_options name="salutation" options=$fields.salutation.options selected=$fields.salutation.value}&nbsp;<input name="first_name" size="25" maxlength="25" type="text" value="{$fields.first_name.value}">',
    ),
   array('name'=>'phone_work', 'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true)),
),

3. Admin -> Quick Repair and Rebuild
And there you go, you have yourself a new "required" field.


Thanks for reminding me Letrium, otherwise my first post would probably add more headache to Imrankha...

Imrankha, good luck