Help with modules creation

[crmspace]

Hi,
a little orientation:

most things that have to be done in the backend can be solved with logic hooks/workflows (event based) or schedulers (time based):

Logic Hooks

Scheduled Tasks

Workflows

everything that should happen on the frontend can be solved with custom javascripts/jquery. Simply create your code and inject to the relevant views, there are multiple topics in this board on how to do that, e.g.:

How to create dynamice date field?

Hi, if the calculated value should be shown before the users saves the task, you could create a javascript listener using the editviewdefs: 'includes' => array ( 0 => array ( 'file' => 'your/subfolder/path/myscript.js', ), ), if the value should be calculated from the backend (so that users cannot change it after the js ran), logic hooks can be used: It could also be possible using workflows, I didn’t check yet. Edit: yes, workflows have a p…