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SugarCRM is going to be big at OSCON in July!

June 22, 2011

Next month SugarCRM is going big at OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, OR. And I mean really big; just take a look at what we are going to be doing: We’ll be the Platinum Sponsor at OSCON for the first time ever, continuing our increased presence at developer and open source events. [...]

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Web Services in Your Own Language: Part 5 – SugarCRM Python library

June 21, 2011

Editor’s Note: This post comes from our summer intern tech writer, Ian Caton, who was a part of a Capstone class at my alma mater, Kent State University in Kent, OH. They were tasked with building a better API for the language of their choice to help make it easier for developers to interact with [...]

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HOWTO: Use a custom query in a dashlet

June 17, 2011

Editor’s Note: This tip comes from a forums post by our very prolific community member, Jason Eggers ( probably better known by his forums, Twitter, and IRC handle ‘eggsurplus’ ). He’s contributed several bug fixes and features to SugarCRM over the years, including the dashlet auto-refresh feature in the recently released Sugar 6.2. He’s also [...]

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Quick Entry Module

June 16, 2011

Making the complex seem easy.
Epicom created a Quick Entry Module for its customer, The Texas Tribune, to speed-up data entry for donations and advertisement purchases. Epicom’s Quick Entry Module leverages SugarCRM’s architecture and relates data between modules. For example, a Contact can be related to an Account and a Quote can be related to both.
Creating [...]

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Want to win an iPad 2? Then be a part of the SugarCRM bug fix contest!

June 15, 2011

For those of you who have those annoying bugs in SugarCRM that they’d love to have fixed once and for all, now’s your chance. We are holding a bug fix contest starting next week, and the person submitting the most number of bug fixes during that period will walk away with a brand new Apple [...]

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Custom Support Portal

June 14, 2011

The purpose of email chains and Google docs is to streamline the collaboration process and keep one centralized communication channel among groups.  If your company is using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, customer portals take on the collaboration role and are far more efficient in organizing information. Portals allow customers to interact with the [...]

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Learning Sugar Logic: Using custom dependencies.

June 13, 2011

One of the more powerful features in Sugar Logic is the ability to craft custom Dependencies that can leverage Actions and more complicated Triggers not made available in Studio. The complete list of Actions available in 6.2 out of the box is: In this example, we are going to create an extension that will add [...]

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SugarCRM 6.2: How our community helped make it happen

June 10, 2011

We last week announced the general availability of the Sugar 6 Spring Release ( also known as Sugar 6.2 ). This release came with some pretty impressive changes to the core product, added mobile and integration features, as well as the new Corporate and Ultimate editions, and much much more. Sugar 6.2 also marks the first release [...]

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Learning Sugar Logic: Calculated Date Due

June 7, 2011

Starting in SugarCRM 6.2, we can use dates in SugarLogic formulas. This means we can now calculate fields like Due Date without writing custom code. For example, we can open the “date_due” field of tasks in studio and check the “Calculated Value” checkbox. If we want the date due to be two weeks from the [...]

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SouthwestCRM Launches Hedron4 for Charities, a CRM and On-line

June 6, 2011

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SouthwestCRM has delivered innovative software solutions to the SME marketplace for several years and today is pleased to announce the availability of “Hedron4 for Chari…

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