[Vtigercrm-developers] Documents Reference Field - cannot quick create

[Uma S]

Hi Martin,

That's the case as Alan said, Documents module hold a n:n relationship with
other modules, related fields are not supported for same.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:26 PM nilay khatri <nilay.spartan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We have been requested several times by clients for support of File fields
> in the layout editor. We have done some workaround but were unable to have
> a full fledged implementation.
>
> Soon after we setup the Datetime UIType field support in couple of days,
> we will also create an issue and share the WIP project for support of File
> type UIType via Layout Editor.
>
> I guess that should help you achieve the requirements here.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 3:27 PM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Documents have an n:n relationship with other modules, hence why no
>> related field.
>>
>> Relationships are stored in vtiger_senotesrel.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/09/2020 10:47, Martin Allen wrote:
>> > Not sure if anyone has come across this issue before - if you add a
>> > related field to a module that relates to the Documents module, it is
>> > impossible to Quick Create a Document from the related field (unlike
>> all
>> > other modules)
>> > It appears to be due to the fact that the Quick Create button on a
>> > related field simply triggers the click of the element in the Quick
>> > Create button on the header bar, but with an additional callback
>> > function that populates the Related field with the newly created
>> record.
>> > However Documents are handled differently in the Quick Create header as
>> > it has its own sub-menu, which stops its working in this case.
>> >
>> > Has anyone seen this before and figured out a work-around? We tried to
>> > make it show the Upload file to vTiger Popup by default, but then are
>> > unable to call the callback function.
>> >
>> > Not sure if this is an issue in vTiger itself, as no-where is there a
>> > related field to Documents by default, they're all related lists,
>> > however it would be nice to be able to do this easily as it allows
>> > simple customisation/extendability of modules.
>> >
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Uma.S
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