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Unable to set HTML field of a SugarBean

Artis Plocins

On my custom endpoint that does not require authentication I am trying to save an HTML string to a custom HTML field.

Outputting the HTML string to a TextArea field shows that it is definitely working and the string is correct.

In the screenshot below I have concatenated two versions of the HTML string - one with utf8_decode();  and the other (after the "\n\n----------\n\n", I thought TextArea would add newlines, ignore that please) as the plain string as I was checking whether it was received as Unicode.

I am trying to set the value of the HTML field in the same way as the TextArea, but it is not working. How am I supposed to do it?

  • 0

    According to the documentation

    http://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_6.5/Module_Framework/Metadata/SugarField… 

    and code in <mysugar>/clients/base/fields/html/html.js the html field type is read only.

     

     /**
         * @inheritdoc
         *
         * The html area is always a readonly field.
         * (see htmleditable for an editable html field)
         */
        initialize: function(options) {
            options.def.readonly = true;
            this._super('initialize', [options]);
        },

    HTH

    FrancescaS

  • 0 in reply to Francesca Shiekh

    So is it not possible to set the value of an HTML field when my customisation creates a new record?

  • 0 in reply to Francesca Shiekh

    I managed to create a TinyMCE field, but I am getting some errors in Chrome JS console when trying to edit it, so I cannot actually change the value as a user

    <?php

    // File custom/Extension/modules/Case_Replies/Ext/Vardefs/sugarfield_message_c.php

    $dictionary['Case_Replies']['fields']['message_c'] = array(
        'labelValue' => 'Message',
        'type' => 'htmleditable_tinymce',
        'dismiss_label' => true,
        'span' => 12,
        'tinyConfig' => array( // Location of TinyMCE script
            'script_url' => $sugar_config['site_url'] . '/include/javascript/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js',
            'height' => '100%',
            'width' => '100%',
            // General options
            'theme' => 'advanced',
            'skin' => 'sugar7',
            'plugins' => 'style,paste,inlinepopups',
            'entity_encoding' => 'raw',
            'forced_root_block' => false,
            // Theme options
            'theme_advanced_buttons1' => "code,separator,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,separator,bullist,numlist,separator,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,separator,forecolor,backcolor,separator,fontsizeselect",
            'theme_advanced_toolbar_location' => "top",
            'theme_advanced_toolbar_align' => "left",
            'theme_advanced_statusbar_location' => "none",
            'theme_advanced_resizing' => false,
            'schema' => 'html5',
            'template_external_list_url'  => 'lists/template_list.js',
            'external_link_list_url' => 'lists/link_list.js',
            'external_image_list_url' => 'lists/image_list.js',
            'media_external_list_url' => 'lists/media_list.js',
            'theme_advanced_path' => false,
            'theme_advanced_source_editor_width' => 500,
            'theme_advanced_source_editor_height' => 400,
            'inlinepopups_skin' => 'sugar7modal',
            // Url options for links
            'relative_urls' => false,
            'remove_script_host' => false,
        ),
        'full_text_search' => array(
            'enabled' => true,
            'boost' => '1',
            'searchable' => true,
        ),
    );
  • 0 in reply to Artis Plocins

    Hi Artis Plocins 

    The module KBContents has a tinymce field, it works great on creating a record. As you can see it defines it own Htmleditable_tinymceField, so probably you will need to do something like that.

    Kind regards

    André Lopes
    Lampada Global
    Skype: andre.lampada
  • 0 in reply to Artis Plocins

    It was more simple than that to use the TinyMCE field type. It is enough to only specify the type of the field and the corresponding database data type.

    It takes a bit more effort to specify TinyMCE settings, but there is some documentation to help with that in the developer guide here.

    $dictionary['Case_Replies'] = array(
        'table' => 'case_replies',
        'audited' => true,
        'activity_enabled' => false,
        'duplicate_merge' => true,
        'fields' => array (
      'message' =>
      array (
        'required' => false,
        'name' => 'message',
        'vname' => 'LBL_MESSAGE',
        'type' => 'htmleditable_tinymce', // Specify the field type to be TinyMCE
        'dbType' => 'text', // This is data type of the field value in the database to save the HTML/UTF-8 markup
        'massupdate' => false,
        'default' => '',
        'no_default' => false,
        'comments' => 'TinyMCE editor for displaying HTML reply messages',
        'help' => 'Case reply message',
        'importable' => 'true',
        'duplicate_merge' => 'enabled',
        'duplicate_merge_dom_value' => '1',
        'audited' => false,
        'reportable' => true,
        'unified_search' => true,
        'merge_filter' => 'disabled',
        'full_text_search' =>
        array (
          'enabled' => true,
          'boost' => '1',
          'searchable' => true,
        ),
        'calculated' => false,
        'size' => '20',
        'studio' => 'visible',
        'rows' => '20',
        'cols' => '20',
      ),
    );