This article has been updated 25th January 2010 to include additional resources. For those of you working in different languages there are 3 language packs available to extend the translations for Sage CRM 6.1 and 6.2. 6.1 Language pack for Turkish 6.2d Language pack for French, German and Spanish 6...

In this post I will be exploring the possibilities of combining the CRM.AddContent method and some javascript data transmission techniques. Previously I've blogged about using AJAX to access server-side objects in client-side scripts. AJAX is great for sending information back and forth from the...

This article has been written to answer the business need for a simple way for a user to pass a message to the System Administrator (or another colleague) without having to leave Sage CRM. The further requirement is that the message must then show up within Sage CRM. You can see from the image below...

A while back I blogged about injecting scripts into system action screens that don't have custom content field. Well recently I had an epiphany about Translations and using them to embed scripts into screens where there is no custom content field. The technique described in this post is a lot easier...

I orginally wrote about creating derived fields in a view in the article " Custom_Edits and Derived Fields Created in Views ". This discussion is a continuation of the ideas expressed in that article and will show how meta data definitions of a calculated field can be easily added into Meta...

You only need to follow the tags " List Page " or " List Block " to see that there have been lots of articles written already about how lists can be customized. In this article I want to step back and bring all these points together so we can see the range of options that we have...

It is a general rule that in CRM data fields are not supposed to hold HTML which can then be passed directly back to the interface. This is by design. So if you store a string in a text field like "<a href=http://dpp.sagecrm.com>http://dpp.sagecrm.com</a>" then when this is rendered...

In the article " Creating Global Code for OnCreate and Validate scripts " I discussed how we can reuse functions across different create scripts either in the same screen or between different screens. One of the techniques that I suggested was the use of either a specialised table to hold the...

A screen like the company summary screen has a very particular structure because it is partially defined in meta data and partial has its structure hard coded into the system action being called. The detail of this is discussed in the article " Changing a Summary Screen (e.g. Company Summary Screen...

This article has been updated (29th April 2009) to use the coding convention introduced in Sage CRM 6.2 If you have started to code with Sage CRM you will know that the world is seemingly divided into two, ServerSide and ClientSide. The objects and properties that we can use ServerSide can not be used...