Using Module Builder to Build Custom Modules

Abstract

At this point in the book, you now know about the guts of what makes SugarCRM tick, from the big stuff like the MVC framework, the Metadata layer, and Web Services to the smaller items like User Authentication and Dashlets. After that thorough study of Sugar, you then looked at how to customize Sugar right out of the box. I started by showing the easy-to-use Studio tool that enables customizing the metadata views through an easy point and click interface. You then saw how to interject business logic into your application through the use of logic hooks and how to interject common logic into your application using workflows, which provide a point and click way for the non-programmers among us to add business logic as well. If neither of those options for customizing does the job, you then saw how to customize several other areas of the application from views and metadata to field types and themes.