SugarCRM 7 — Adding an action to the listview
Posted on Sun 18 May 2014 in Tech
There doesn't appear to be a documented way to do this but in SugarCRM 7 this is how I've added actions to the listview. For this example it's showing how to add a button to an animal module, which adds the animal to a related circus event.
1. Adding thebutton
This first thing you need to do is copy the global recordlist.php file into your module and create a custom recordlist.php which overrides the existing one. You can copy the base one SugarCRM has or simply take this file below and alter the add_to_circus button. Note the addtocirus:fire action, we will create javascript code that is called when this event is fired. This code should go into custom/module/animals/clients/base/views/recordlist/recordlist.php
if (!defined('sugarEntry') || !sugarEntry) {
die('Not A Valid Entry Point');
}
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$viewdefs['CSTM_ANIMALS']['base']['view']['recordlist'] = array(
'selection' => array(
'type' => 'multi',
'actions' => array(
array(
'name' => 'edit_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_MASS_UPDATE',
'primary' => true,
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:massupdate:fire',
),
'acl_action' => 'massupdate',
),
array(
'name' => 'merge_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_MERGE',
'primary' => true,
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:mergeduplicates:fire',
),
'acl_action' => 'edit',
),
array(
'name' => 'calc_field_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_UPDATE_CALC_FIELDS',
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:updatecalcfields:fire',
),
'acl_action' => 'massupdate',
),
array(
'name' => 'addtolist_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_ADD_TO_PROSPECT_LIST_BUTTON_LABEL',
'primary' => true,
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:massaddtolist:fire',
),
'acl_module' => 'ProspectLists',
'acl_action' => 'edit',
),
array(
'name' => 'delete_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_DELETE',
'acl_action' => 'delete',
'primary' => true,
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:massdelete:fire',
),
),
array(
'name' => 'export_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_EXPORT',
'acl_action' => 'export',
'primary' => true,
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:massexport:fire',
),
),
array(
'name' => 'add_to_circus_button',
'type' => 'button',
'label' => 'LBL_ADD_TO_FAIR',
'acl_action' => 'edit',
'primary' => true,
'events' => array(
'click' => 'list:addtocircus:fire',
),
),
),
),
);
2. Adding theaction
This is an example of the JS code you could call when the event has custom/modules/animals/clients/base/views/recordlist/recordlist.js. On initialise we simply set a new context.on that calls your js modules function.
({
//add listener for custom button
this.context.on('list:addtocircus:fire', this.add_to_circus, this);
},
add_to_circus : function() {
var idCSV = '';
var selector = 'CSTM_ANIMALS_';
// I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but not documented or found anywhere.
$('input[type=checkbox]:checked').closest('[name^='+selector+']').each(function(){
idCSV += $(this).attr('name').substring(selector.length) + ',';
});
$.ajax({
if(errorResponse != '') {
app.alert.show('bad-add-to-circus', {
});
}
}
});
},
})
Now there's a few caveats with this code.
- I couldn't find a documented way to get the selected backbone items from SugarCRMs listview collection. So I had to write a jQuery selector, simply replace CSTM_ANIMAL with your module name and the selector should get you the list of ids that have been selected by the user, package them to a CSV then pass them to the ajax call.
- The keen eyed observers might have noticed I'm using the old way of directly calling a controller action, this is because this code was implemented to support a migration project from SugarCRM 6 -> SugarCRM 7 and it was faster than re-implementing the PHP code. However if starting anew, I would strongly recommend instead adding a new rest endpoint to your module and calling that via AJAX. There's some great documentation here on that topic, which should help show you how to implement the code to add the animal to a circus. I'll do another post on this in the future.
3. Quick Repair and Rebuilt(as always)
Any questions feel free to ask!