[Vtigercrm-developers] Develop New Module

[Alan Lord]

On 09/10/13 23:26, Pabiszczak, Błażej wrote:

> If we need create many fields we install module and use Layout Editor.

Gosh - That's rather slow and cumbersome.

I find it much faster and more repeatable to create all your fields via 
a vtlib script:

> // Meter ID
> $field = Vtiger_Field::getInstance('meterid', $module);
> if ($field != false) {
> 	$field->delete();
> }
> $field = new Vtiger_Field();
> $field->name = 'meterid';
> $field->label = 'LBL LSMETER ID';
> $field->column = 'meterid';
> $field->columntype = 'VARCHAR(255)';
> $field->uitype = 1;
> $field->typeofdata = 'V~O';
> $block_main->addField($field);
> unset($field);
>
> //Supplier
> $field = Vtiger_Field::getInstance('relvendorid', $module);
> if ($field != false) {
> 	$field->unsetRelatedModules(Array('Vendors'));
> 	$field->delete();
> }
> $field = new Vtiger_Field();
> $field->name = 'relvendorid';
> $field->column = 'relvendorid';
> $field->label = 'LSSUPPLIER';
> $field->columntype = 'INT(11)';
> $field->uitype = 10;
> $field->typeofdata = 'V~M';
> $block_main->addField($field);
> $field->setRelatedModules(Array('Vendors'));
> unset($field);

(Once you've written one it just a search and replace to create fields 
with different names etc.)

This kind of script can be run over and over again - tweaking things as 
and when necessary.

> When we export module, we change table name (without cf) and add special
> fields (like UIType 10).

No need to rename tables using vtlib. We now start all our own custom 
modules with libertus_...

One thing that would be helpful would be an API to be able to do that 
for the custom picklist tables too...

Cheers

Al