Programmatically change the content of dropdown

**Benjamin C. B.** · 2012-01-18, 10:08 AM

Hello !

My SugarCRM shares data from another system (homemade). When the content of a dropdwon in this other system changes, I have to change manually the content of the corresponding dropdown in SugarCRM. Is there a way to change the content of any dropdown in SugarCRM with some kind of PHP code ? Just to clarify, I'm not only talking about labels of the dropdowns, but the hole content.

thanks !

**andopes** · 2012-01-18, 10:31 AM

One interesting option is to turn such dropdown into a real module, and make your homemade application to update records of this module by soap.

Cheers

**jmertic** · 2012-01-18, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by andopes

One interesting option is to turn such dropdown into a real module, and make your homemade application to update records of this module by soap.

Cheers

Here's a dev blog post that describes the Sugar part of this, just need to have the function make the SOAP call.

SugarCRM Developer Blog » Blog Archive » HOWTO: Have a dropdown field that get’s it’s options from a function.

Would recommend doing some caching on the Sugar side to help the performance issues that could arise.