How do I disable use of Bulk API in Subpanels for Sugar 7.6 and later?

Question

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My customer would prefer to have subpanel results come back sequentially instead of all at once. How do I disable use of Bulk API in Sugar 7.6 subpanels?

Matt Marum · Accepted Answer

This setting can be changed by overriding sugar_config to include additional JS config (config.js) setting for 'disableBulkApi'. This setting is used by Sugar 7 front end to determine if it uses Bulk API to send subpanel requests or if requests are sent individually as they were in Sugar 7.5 and earlier.

See example below.

$sugar_config = array (
  'additional_js_config' => 
  array (
    'disableBulkApi' => true
  ),
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