Create a New UItype in VtigerCRM

Creating a New Popup UItype in VtigerCRM5.1.0 for a Newly Created Module.

Here things are explained using Locations Module. Locations is a new module that we have already created and is functioning well.

I assume that the newly created UItype is 1001 for Locations popup selector.

1. First  I added a method to: include/utils/CommonUtils.php

function getLocationName($location_id)

{

global $log;

$log->debug("Entering getLocationName(".$location_id.") method ...");

$log->info("in getlocationname ".$location_id);

global $adb;

$sql = "select locationname from vtiger_locations where locationsid=?";

    $result = $adb->pquery($sql, array($location_id));

$locationname = $adb->query_result($result,0,"locationname");

$log->debug("Exiting getLocationName method ...");

return $locationname;

}

2.Added an elseif condition in else if ladder of file:  include/utils/EditViewUtils.php

elseif($uitype == 1001)

{

if($value != '')

{

$location_name = getLocationName($value);

}

elseif(isset($_REQUEST['location_id']) && $_REQUEST['location_id'] != '')

{

$value = $_REQUEST['location_id'];

$location_name = getLocationName($value);

}

$pop_type = 'specific';

$editview_label[]=getTranslatedString($fieldlabel, $module_name);

$fieldvalue[] = $location_name;

$fieldvalue[] = $value;

}

3.Added an elseif condition in else if ladder of file::  include/utils/EditViewUtils.php

elseif($uitype == 1001)

   {

$label_fld[] =getTranslatedString($fieldlabel, $module);

           $location_id = $col_fields[$fieldname];

           if($location_id != '')

           {

                  $location_name = getLocationName($location_id);

           }

          $label_fld[] = $location_name;

$label_fld["secid"] = $location_id;

$label_fld["link"] = "index.php?module=Locations&action=DetailView&record=".$location_id;

   }

Edited Smarty (.tpl) files.

1.Smarty/templates/DetailViewFields.tpl

Replaced following else if

{elseif $keyid eq '50' || $keyid eq '73' || $keyid eq '51' || $keyid eq '57' || $keyid eq '59' || $keyid eq '75' || $keyid eq '81' || $keyid eq '76' || $keyid eq '78' || $keyid eq '80'}

with

{elseif $keyid eq '50' || $keyid eq '73' || $keyid eq '51' || $keyid eq '57' || $keyid eq '59' || $keyid eq '75' || $keyid eq '1001' || $keyid eq '81' || $keyid eq '76' || $keyid eq '78' || $keyid eq '80'}

2.Smarty/templates/EditViewUI.tpl

Added the following in {elseif} ladder

{elseif $uitype eq 1001}

<td width="20%" class="dvtCellLabel" align=right>

{assign var="pop_type" value="specific"}

<font color="red">{$mandatory_field}</font>{$usefldlabel} {if $MASS_EDIT eq '1'}

<input type="checkbox" name="{$fldname}_mass_edit_check" id="{$fldname}_mass_edit_check" class="small" >{/if}

</td>

<td width="30%" align=left class="dvtCellInfo">

<input name="location_name" readonly type="text" style="border:1px solid #bababa;" value="{$fldvalue}"><input name="{$fldname}" type="hidden" value="{$secondvalue}">&nbsp;<img src="{'select.gif'|@vtiger_imageurl:$THEME}" alt="{$APP.LBL_SELECT}" title="{$APP.LBL_SELECT}" LANGUAGE=javascript onclick='return window.open("index.php?module=Locations&action=Popup&html=Popup_picker&popuptype={$pop_typ e}&form=EditView&fromlink={$fromlink}","test","width=640,height=602,resizable=0,scrollbars=0");' align="absmiddle" style='cursor:hand;cursor:pointer'>

<input type="image" tabindex="{$vt_tab}" src="{'clear_field.gif'|@vtiger_imageurl:$THEME}" alt="{$APP.LBL_CLEAR}" title="{$APP.LBL_CLEAR}" LANGUAGE=javascript onClick="this.form.location_id.value='';this.form.location_name.value='';return false;" align="absmiddle" style='cursor:hand;cursor:pointer'>

</td>

3.Smarty/templates/DetailViewUI.tpl

Added the following in {elseif} ladder

{elseif $keyid eq '1001'} <!--LocationPopup-->

<td width=25% class="dvtCellInfo" align="left" id="mouseArea_{$label}">&nbsp;<a href="{$keyseclink}">{$keyval}</a> </td>    

And Finally:

Added the following in {elseif} ladder : include/js/dtlviewajax.js

else if(uitype == '1001') {

getObj(dtlView).innerHTML = "<a href=\"index.php?module=Locations&action=DetailView&record="+tagValue+"\">"+popObj.value+"&nbs p;</a>";

}

Added a method to: modules/Locations/Locations.js

document.write("<script type='text/javascript' src='include/js/Mail.js'></"+"script>");

document.write("<script type='text/javascript' src='include/js/Merge.js'></"+"script>");

function set_return_specific(location_id, location_name)

{

       //getOpenerObj used for DetailView

       var fldName = getOpenerObj("location_name");

       var fldId = getOpenerObj("location_id");

       fldName.value = location_name;

       fldId.value = location_id;

}