New tutorial! How to register custom platforms in Sugar instances

If you have a REST API integration with Sugar, you are likely using a custom platform as part of that integration.  Beginning in the Winter ‘18 release, Sugar is enforcing a rule that all custom platforms must be registered in each Sugar instance where a custom platform is used.  For more details on the rule itself, see Matt’s earlier blog post: Unknown platforms to be restricted in Winter ‘18 release.

The bad news?  This change that requires all custom platforms to be registered probably affects you.

The good news?  There is an easy fix, and I’ve written a tutorial that walks you step-by-step through how to implement the fix.

Check out the tutorial here!

Our blog is moving(!) and other exciting community updates

We’re getting a head start on our New Year’s Resolutions!  We’ve given our developer community a fresh, new look, and we feel ten pounds lighter.  Let me give you a tour!

First, we’ve migrated our blog from developer.sugarcrm.com to the Developer Community at https://community.sugarcrm.com/community/developer/pages/dev-blog.  We’re really excited about this change as the community is now your one-stop-shop for everything related to developing on Sugar.  We’ll temporarily be putting new posts on both blogs, but please update your bookmarks now.

New tutorial! Intro to the Sugar REST API

Are you ready to build an integration with Sugar but not sure where to start?  You’ve come to the right place!

When you want to access or interact with information stored in Sugar, the REST API is a great place to start.  In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to authenticate to the Sugar REST API.  Then you’ll learn how to perform create, read, update, and delete (aka CRUD) operations.

Watch the video tutorial below or view the text-based tutorial at bit.ly/tutorial_rest.

How to create custom Sidecar routes

Have you ever found yourself wishing you could create a custom Sidecar user interface within your Sugar instance? Maybe you want to allow users to visit a URL that displays a custom view.

It turns out that creating a linkable URL (or route) to within the Sugar client is fairly simple. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to implement a new route in your Sugar instance that displays an alert.

New video! Use Vagrant to start coding with Sugar in 20 minutes

Do you need to set up your Sugar development environment but only have 20 minutes to spare?  With the help of Vagrant, I’ve got you covered. Check out my new video below:

 

Prefer text-based instructions?  Get them here.

Hello from SugarCRM’s newest Developer Advocate!

Hey there, Sugar Developers!

I’m SugarCRM’s newest Developer Advocate, and I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself.  My name is Lauren Schaefer. Since getting my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science at North Carolina State (go pack!), I’ve been slowly migrating north over the years, and I currently live in Pennsylvania.