100 Tutorials To A SugarCRM Cookbook

[josh.sweeney]

I want your real world tutorials!! SugarCRM needs a cookbook. If you have ever read PHP Cookbook or C# Cookbook then you know what I mean. It is a book with nothing but real world examples on how to get things done in a language or software package.

Here is the challenge: I have only written a few tutorials myself so I need your help. If everyone can turn their hacks and addons into a tutorial and submit it to me then I will format it, check it, edit it, combine exmaples, and do all of the other duties to produce the first SugarCRM Cookbook. Then I will deliver in PDF back to the community.

The requirements:
1. All tutorials must work in 5.x
2. Tutorials can be 1 to 15 pages, all code needs to be included in the tutorial.
3. Once I get to 100 tutorials or 1000 pages I will publish it to the community.
4. It needs to include step by step instructions that have been checked on a clean instance.
5. Needs to include who it was written by and specify whether or not it is upgrade safe.
6. Screenshots are welcome.

If you have a tutorial then please attach it to your post and I will grab it. Please put the title in your post so that other can see what it is about.

Any takers?

[eggsurplus]

Wow, sure. It may take awhile though.

[DragonflyMaster]

That would be very useful, but

1. All tutorials must work in 5.1.

Why? 5.1 has not gone gold yet, maybe with 5.0x you could gather tutorials more easily...

[rmbennett72]

I understand the desire to use the latest version of the software to create the cookbook. I also know there are enough differences between 4.X version and 5.0 to make many earlier tutorials non-compliant with a 5.0 system. However are the differences between 5.0 and 5.1 enough to draw the line between those two versions? I do not know because I have just started to adopt Sugar since 5.X has been released. So I will leave that debate to more experienced users. My vote is draw the line at 5.0 though.

That all being said can you post a link to an example tutorial that you would like others to follow?

[eggsurplus]

Good point. Didn't see the 5.1 requirement. Not wasting my time just to check to see if it works in 5.1. I can do 5.0 though. A sample format is a good idea for submissions.

[josh.sweeney]

I have no problem including 5.x articles. If for some odd reason they work in one and not the other then please specify.

I have attached a tutorial that I have been working on recently for reference. In the attached doc I boxed in code and highlighted code additions in blue.

[josh.sweeney]

It may also help if people post suggestions. Here are a few:

Converting Country, State, City into dropdowns.
Calculated Fields
Utilizing Built in Flash charts in custom modules.
Building custom workflows.
Adding custom fields to Studio.
Adding TinyMCE to fields.
How to remove buttons.
LinkedIn Integration
Adding images to modules.

Many of these have been discussed in the forums but are still in thread form or spread across multiple threads. Converting these into a document form would be very helpful if you can spare the time.

[josh.sweeney]

Here is a list of the current articles that we have.

1. Lightboxing in a detail view
2. Programmatically Hiding and Displaying Panels Based on the Value of A Drop Down in 5.1
3. Adding a FedEx Tracking Link to a Detail View in 5.x
4. Adding an Icon to Link to External Application
5. Adding a save event to track case stages
6. Adding a pre-save event to track task duration
7. How to change field level attributes

[DragonflyMaster]

Hi Josh,
are these tuts available somewhere?

[kuske]

Hi Josh,
are these tuts available somewhere?

Very good question, as you want to write a book (paper based I hope) I would recommend to use a Typo3 or other CMS as writing tool.

No, i did not write "WIKI", I wrote "CMS"

Greetings