Building on SugarCRM by Mertic, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Building on SugarCRM

Preface

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

1. What is SugarCRM?

A breakdown of the editions

Community Edition Professional Edition Corporate Edition Enterprise Edition Ultimate Edition

What you need to install SugarCRM

How about running in the cloud?

What do you get with SugarCRM?

Modular design MVC Framework Metadata-Driven Views User Authentication and Access Control External Services Integration Web Services API Ease of Administration Easy to use developer tools Upgrade safeness

Summary

2. Developing on the SugarCRM platform

Customizing the out-of-the-box modules with Studio

Adding and changing fields Building custom business logic with Sugar Logic Changing view field layouts Add new module relationships Customizing the language string used in your module

Building new modules using Module Builder

Defining your new module Deploying the new package to the world

Defining Workflows

Create conditions for workflow execution Alerting and Actions for a workflow

Summary

3. Building your application using the Sugar GUI Developer tools

Application overview Customizing out-of-the-box modules with Studio

Sponsors Sponsorships

New modules to create with Module Builder

Attendees Speakers Events

Summary

4. Diving deeper with custom code

Bring the new happens with the conference into the Activity Stream

Show new attendees in the Activity Stream View incoming speaker proposals in Activity Stream See feedback immediately in Activity Stream.

Automate speaker acceptance and rejection Calculating Average Session Feedback Score Summary

5. Integrating your application with the outside world

Attendee registration form Call for Papers submission form Session Feedback Form Summary

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