[Vtigercrm-developers] Creating a custom UIType?

[nilay khatri]

If it is for specific modules (and field) only then why not override the
behaviour of a near match/text type field in those modules?

If it is about adding a UI type available in layout Editor as well, then
there is much to be done. Such as in Reports, CustomViews, QueryGenerator
etc..

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 4:12 PM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to add a new UIType field to vtiger 7 that displays an html
> canvas element.
>
> Am I right in thinking I should register it vtiger_ws_fieldtype and if I
> give it a fieldtype of "canvas" then I can extend the Vtiger_Field_Model
> to load it?
>
> One thing I don't quite get is how in Detail Views the UIType template
> file does not seem to be used at all - it only seems to be called for
> Edit Views. So for Detail View do I need to modify the
> DetailViewBlockView.tpl for all/any modules where I might want to use my
> new field?
>
> And in terms of choosing a UIType _number_ how do we prevent possible
> collisions? I can choose something like 995 or whatever, but presumably
> another developer could also choose the same number without knowing?
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Al
>
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