Conditional loading of a detailview

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Hello,
I am very new to SuiteCRM but I do have some prior form as a PHP developer and have used some MVC frameworks before (CodeIgniter and Zencart).

I am interested to know how one can conditionally load a different view according to a particular boolean condition - perhaps the
presence of a data value in a data field of an object.

Suppose we are focussed upon the “detailview” of a Case. Is it possible to create more than one detail view using the Studio?
One view would use one set of data fields for the case; another view would use a different set - it’s to support some legacy
cases. In principle, this sounds a reasonable thing to do but I am not sure how to proceed - I’ve only been looking at SuiteCRM
for a few days and not as my main activity. I wonder whether I would have to resort to writing some bespoke PHP code to support this
kind of thing.

Paul

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Hi,

You would have to resort to bespoke PHP code to support this I’m afraid. You cant do anything like that through studio. I have worked with Codeigniter before and working with SuiteCRM/SugarCRM is very different and no where near as straightforward. The underlying architecture is not MVC in the traditional sense.

You could do what you want to do by creating a custom controller and extending the existing Detail View.

You will need to search around for information but remember SuiteCRM is a fork of SugarCRM CE 6.5.x so you are better off searching based on that.

This may get you started: https://developer.sugarcrm.com/2011/02/07/howto-creating-custom-controller-and-view-classes/

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OP… any luck with developing the conditional field format?