Preview documents outside of SugarCRM

[sarunas.lazauskas@gmail.com]

Hello everyone,
is there a way to reach sugarcrm documents/images from outside of sugarcrm, for example display images in example.com website or add link to certain document which could be downloaded onclick? Please help, if this is not possible then i'll have to create some custom upload field which would handle file upload to public location.

Thanks in advance!

Šarūnas Lazauskas

[mpoer@profilingsolutions.com]

It would be difficult to simply link to the documents. When Sugar stores a file/document/note-attachment, it creates a record in the database to represent the information about that file, then takes the actual file and renames it to the record's GUID, without a file extension, and puts it in /cache/upload.

To access the file, you can copy the file, give it a proper file extension and name, and simply open it. Easier said than done if you want to automate, though, because the Sugar supports several different file types. If you know the GUID, you can build the URL (sugar.com/download.php?record=xyz, or something like that) but that requires an active session within Sugar.

There's probably a way to pull documents via SOAP and/or REST, but I haven't worked through it yet.