1.Wysiwyg-Editor Problems

2. Signature Problem

3. From-Name in Email needs change

4. Alternate TEXT Emailtext instead of just HTML 

1.Wysiwyg-Editor Problems

Those of You that don´t have Problems with the fck Editor, don´t need to kill it. In my case firefox crashed and in IE there where also some bugs. Anyway i found it better to have a Text-Email+Simple HTML instead a fullblown HTML one, which might not be read by some folks using Webmailers. 

To disable the FCk i did it the dirty way for now:

modules/Emails/EditView.html around Line 107 find:

 <!– oFCKeditor.ReplaceTextarea() ; –>
Commented out the replacement Call

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2. Signature Problem

The signature in the Email is taken from the Users Signature but it is wrapped with font-Tag in the HTML Email. I took those out an killed also the "newLine2break"-nl2br around the signature. Did also looked not very nice and is obsolete.

modules/Emails/send_mail.php around Line 54 find:

$contents .= ‘<br><br><font color=darkgrey>’.nl2br($sign).’</font>’;
replace with:
$contents .= ‘<br><br>’.$sign.”;

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3. From-Name in Email needs change

  When sending the Emails the vTiger CRM-Username is taken into the From-Name . This is not so nice because the Clients don´t really need to know my Login Name. I made an extra query to fetch another Piece of the users Data:
modules/Emails/send_mail.php around Line 62 find:

$initialfrom = $from;
replace with:
$sql="select department from users where user_name=’" .$from ."’" ;
$result = $adb->query($sql);
$initialfrom = $adb->query_result($result,0,"department");

Watch out you can put in any field from the Users-Table in thew select statement. Currently it takes the department as sender name. it would be nice to have an Admin Option for this.

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4. Alternate TEXT Emailtext instead of just HTML 

hey cool phpmailer provides a function to add alternative text to a HTMl message… so why don´t we use it??
 This is by far not the only place where there is such an alternate Email text. You can just Search over your vTiger folder to find them all.

modules/Emails/send_mail.php around Line 155 find:

$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";
replace with:
$mail->AltBody = strip_tags($contents);

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Those are just some Bugs. There are some more f.Ex. with the Emailtemplate merging. i might cover those later.

By the way, i could provide the patched files. But If you try this yourself, you might bring the vTiger CRM community forward in the future and i´m not yet satisfied with the only the above

Please feel free to give me some Feedback. 

Well it did not get to many attention (like the whole prof. Forum Area!!) so i put it here to the public.

After insering the following code into your Sugar 3.0 Files you will be able to add a picture to a product … hey great Sugar guy´s it´s not even in you new 4.0 Sugarcrm professional version, at least not in your Demo … great worxs

I have not looked to deep into the 4.0 Sugarcrm Professional Code and skipped the 3.5 Version. It should be done the same way and you´ll see when you insert it. But maybe there are possibilities to make more use of global classes and hooks … thats what their marketing said.
If you want to learn a bit how to extend Sugar just see this as a little " How To" – Lesson

 Remarks

– PLEASE Notice: There might be some hidden probs in my code pieces so be carefull and BAckup Backup..!

– The Line numbers are just an orientation .. most pieces can slightly be put somewhere else in the file.

– This field can also contain any other allowed file types and then will not show the image in the detailView

– it is already very late (in germany) so i´ll hope i don´t miss anything.

- BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP both Files and Database (the Database is extended by two fields in the product table, nothing spectacular)

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Changed files: all in modules/Products/…

Product Insert files:

products.php
Save.php
editView.php
editView.html

Product View Files

DetailView.php
DetailView.html

Changed Db Tables:

table Products added 2 colums
filename
file_mime_type

SQL Insert:
ALTER TABLE `products` ADD `filename` VARCHAR( 100 ) DEFAULT NULL ,
ADD `file_mime_type` VARCHAR( 100 ) DEFAULT NULL ;

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Ok now we go through each file and Apply the changes:

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editView.php

//around Line 61 change the duplicate checker
  if(isset($_REQUEST['isDuplicate']) && $_REQUEST['isDuplicate'] == ‘true’) {
    //added for product image
    if (! empty($focus->filename) )
    {
     $old_id = $focus->id;
     }
    //END added for product image