UnCon 2015 schedule and Github repository are now live!
Sugar Developers! Want to get a head start on your SugarCon UnCon experience? The UnCon roundtable schedule and Github repository are now live! The UnCon roundtable schedule is currently preliminary....
View ArticleUnCon 2015 Update!
We had a great first day at SugarCon UnCon! Initial feedback has been very positive. Lots of great discussions between Sugar Engineers, Sugar Partners, and Sugar Customers. Today is the 2nd day of...
View ArticleUnCon 2015 was a success!
Thanks again to everyone who was at SugarCon UnCon! I think we really took our UnCon to a whole new level this year and I was very happy to see it happen! It was really satisfying to see everybody...
View ArticleUnCon Presentations are available in Github!
The UnCon presentations along with all the other code and notes collected during UnCon are now available in the UnCon Github repository. Check it out today and catch up on anything that you may have...
View ArticleW-Systems introduces a custom field example for Sugar 7
In a recent blog post by W-Systems, an Elite SugarCRM Partner, the W-Systems team shows a great example of how to create a custom field type in Sugar 7 that allows you to place specially formatted text...
View ArticleAdding Views to Sugar 7.5 footer
There are certain parts of the Sugar 7 user interface that are always available to the user. For example, the Sugar Cube at the top left corner of both our mobile and web applications is always...
View ArticleUpgrade to Font Awesome 4.2 in Sugar 7.6
Engineering wanted to let you know about a CSS change coming in Sugar 7.6 which is planned for release before end of June. There has been an upgrade to the library we use for our icons called Font...
View ArticleFont Awesome 3.2.1 compatibility package for Sugar 7.6
In last week’s post on the Font Awesome 4.x upgrade in Sugar 7.6 we mentioned that Sugar Engineering has been putting together a compatibility package. This package can be installed into Sugar 7.6...
View ArticleUsing server side changes to customize SugarCRM Mobile
If you were at UnCon in April 2015 then you know that one of our hottest topics was plans for a SugarCRM Mobile SDK. Since mobile devices and mobile use cases are such a key part of what Customer...
View ArticleAn Easter egg in Sugar 7.6
In Sugar 7.6, we added an awesome little undocumented feature that we’re calling Sweet Spot. Try the matching shortcut key sequence below within a Sugar 7.6 window. OS Shortcut Mac OS X cmd+shift+space...
View ArticleEnhancing performance using Sugar 7 Bulk API
If you’ve used Sugar 7.5 or earlier then you have probably noticed that it take a few moments after a record appears for all the subpanels to finish being populated with data. Long list of subpanels...
View ArticleSugar 7 test tools now available!
Do you write unit tests for your Sugar customizations? Do you performance test your Sugar on-site deployments? Every developer knows they should be building unit tests and performance tests but...
View ArticleEngineering Hack Week (Part 1)
A long established tradition within Engineering here at SugarCRM is something that we call “Hack Week”. A couple times a year we fly our engineers from all over the world to our headquarters in...
View ArticleHiring more Developer Advocates!
Have you checked out the Current Opportunities at SugarCRM lately? We’re hiring heavily today across all sorts of technical roles at Sugar – including an open position to work with me as a Developer...
View ArticleCreating JavaScript unit tests for Sugar 7
This tutorial will cover the creation of new Jasmine unit tests for testing your Sugar 7 front end code. In order to follow this tutorial, you will need access to the Sugar 7 Unit Test repository....
View ArticleElasticsearch Indexing Jobs in Sugar 7
In this post by Jelle Vink, SugarCRM’s Security Architect and resident Elasticsearch expert, offers an explanation of how the Sugar Job Scheduler and Job Queue affects Sugar 7’s record indexing...
View ArticleCreating a PHP unit test for Sugar 7
In a previous post, we learned how to write JavaScript unit tests using Sugar 7’s Jasmine framework. Today we will learn how to write PHP unit tests using Sugar 7’s PHPUnit framework. If you do not...
View ArticleSidecar Debugger Tools now in Beta!
Sugar Engineering is proud to announce the Beta release of the open source Sidecar Debugger Tools project! Sidecar Debugger Tools This project was developed as part of the recent Partner hack week...
View ArticleFaster Sugar integrations using Building Blocks
What are Sugar Integration Building Blocks? This is a new effort to create an open source library of re-usable common components that can be easily adapted by developers interested in integrating...
View ArticleTech Track @ Global Partner Summit 2015 Recap
Global Partner Summit 2015 This year’s SugarCRM Global Partner Summit took place over the course of 2 days last week in Cascais, Portugal. Partner Summit is an annual opportunity for SugarCRM and our...
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