Earlier today I posted about creating a DateTime Picker in SugarCRM. A second problem I had was creating an auto increment field. This turned out to be slightly more difficult than the datetime picker. Again you need to edit your vardefs.php but this time you add the following to your field.

'auto_increment' => true,

You then need to manually alter the table structure so the id field is a unique index instead of a primary key then add your new column to the database as an auto_increment field and the tables primary key. I also found that if you try to install the module on another system it will fail because it can’t create the table properly. You can solve that by creating the table then installing the module.

Recently I needed to add a date/time field to a custom SugarCRM module. Sadly the module builder doesn’t include support this and the documentation is pretty bad. Eventually I managed to solve my problem and the solution is suprisingly simple.

After adding a date field to the form I edited my vardefs.php file. You’ll find the file in custom/modulebuilder/packages/package_name/modules/module_name/. Find the field and change it’s type to datetime.

Next you need to change your views. They’re located in custom/modulebuilder/packages/package_name/modules/module_name/metadata. In my case I wanted to the edit view to show a datepicker plus a time combo. I found the field and added

'type' => 'Datetimecombo'

After that I deployed the package and my module was now saving as a date/time and in the edit view I could set both the date (using a date picker) and time (using drop down lists).