{"id":249,"date":"2020-03-29T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcrm.in\/blogs\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-09-08T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:23:09","slug":"sugarcrm-populating-fields-using-a-relate-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcrm.in\/blogs\/sugarcrm-populating-fields-using-a-relate-field\/","title":{"rendered":"SugarCRM: Populating fields using a Relate field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This will enable you to populate a field\/fields when a value is selected in a relate field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steps are as below,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>  &nbsp;Go to &lt;sugar&gt;\/custom\/Extension\/modules\/&lt;MODULE_NAME&gt;\/Ext\/Vardefs\/ and create a new file (ex. vardef.ext.php) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> &nbsp;Add the following codes to the file:&nbsp;<strong>(This is for the quicksearch)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$dictionary&#91;'&lt;MODULE_NAME>']&#91;'fields']&#91;'&lt;RELATE_FIELD>']&#91;'populate_list'] = array('name', 'id', '&lt;FIELD_FROM_RELATED_MODULE>');\n$dictionary&#91;'&lt;MODULE_NAME>']&#91;'fields']&#91;'&lt;RELATE_FIELD>']&#91;'field_list'] = array('account_name', 'account_id_c', '&lt;FIELD_TO_POPULATE>');<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong>  Search the field declaration in custom\/modules\/&lt;MODULE_NAME&gt;\/metadata\/editviewdefs.php and add the code below&nbsp;<strong>(This is for the popup window)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>'displayParams' => array(\n    'field_to_name_array' => array(\n         '&lt;ID_FROM_RELATED_MODULE>' => '&lt;ID_OF_RELATE_FIELD>',\n         '&lt;NAME_FROM_RELATED_MODULE>' => '&lt;NAME_OF_RELATE_FIELD>',\n         '&lt;ID_OF_ANOTHER_RELATE_FIELD>' => &lt;ID_OF_ANOTHER_RELATE_FIELD_TO_POPULATE>\n         '&lt;NAME_OF_ANOTHER_RELATE_FIELD>' => &lt;NAME_OF_ANOTHER_RELATE_FIELD_TO_POPULATE>\n    ),\n),<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong>  Run Quick Repair and Rebuild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Note<\/strong> <strong>:<\/strong><\/p><cite>RELATE_FIELD is the Relate field id we want to use (in the example, we used the account_name)<br>FIELD_FROM_RELATED_MODULE is the db name of the field we want to get from related module<br>FIELD_TO_POPULATE is the field in current module that we want to populate with value from&nbsp;FIELD_FROM_RELATED_MODULE<br>account_id_c is the hidden field in a Relate Field where the id of the record selected is stored<br>The name should be the first item in the array because the auto complete of Relate field shows the result from the first item in the array <br>Don&#8217;t forget to include the fields of the relate field we are using to populate another relate field<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you find this blog post helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to add comments and queries, that helps us to improve the quality of posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can contact us at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:contact@urdhva-tech.com\" target=\"_blank\">info@techcrm.in<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will enable you to populate a field\/fields when a value is selected in a relate field. 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