Question

We use a customized installation of SugarCRM and I need to make a change to the ‘Convert Lead to Contact’ form. On the form, only ‘last name’ is marked as required, but if the user does not enter a salutation or first name, Sugar will throw an SQL error on the insert (because salutation and first name are required fields for contacts).

I’ve tried adding this line to ‘modules/Contacts/metadata/editviewdefs.php’ and ‘modules/Contacts/metadata/quickcreatedefs.php’:

array ( 'name' => 'first_name', 'displayParams'=>array('required'=>true), ) 

I’m trying other modifications but I can’t find anything online yet on this exact problem. I will update this question with my findings. Thanks!

Update: Added ‘first_name’ and ‘salutation’ to the ‘required_fields’ array in ‘modules/Contacts/field_arrays.php’, did not help.

Update: This is on SugarCRM 5.1. This work is happening during the upgrade to 5.1.

Update: Added the following line to ‘modules/Contacts/vardefs.php’ the ’email_and_name1′ array, did not help.

'required' => 'true', 

Answer 1

I appear to have figured out a solution. I created an upgrade file in ‘custom/Extension/modules/Contacts/Ext/Vardefs’ called ‘custom.php’. The contents of the file are below:

<?php $dictionary['Contact']['fields']['salutation']['required'] = true; $dictionary['Contact']['fields']['first_name']['required'] = true; ?> 

After I did a ‘quick repair and rebuild’, the salutation and first name were now required. This works for me.