How to get the record id of the current record that I'm viewing?

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SuiteCRM 7.11.23

I was making a chart inside the detailsview account, Make a custom field, added a customCode to that field in the detailsviewdefs that points to a an Entrypoint inside an Iframe. Managed to display the chart from the entrypoint to the Account’s detail view.

My only problem is, how to I get the record ID of the current record that I’m viewing.
I was planning on putting that inside my sql query:

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Help or any kind of tip would be much appreciated!

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Maybe this approach could work for you

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Thanks for the reply.

I have already read that and have already made the Iframe, not to mention render it to the Accounts detailview. My problem is how do I get the ID of the current record that I’m viewing because right now, I have to manually put the record’s ID in the sql query. And that is no good at all.

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The post explains how to do that. Which step of that tutorial are you having trouble with?

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I didn’t do any of the stuff because I used Studio for that. We have to do it via Coding.
I made an Iframe via the customCode attribute in the detailviewsdefs. Inside the Iframe is the entrypoint to render the chart.

I tried using ‘$this’ to access the current bean but it’s empty. Maybe because it’s inside an Iframe so it does not detect the current record bean? I don’t know and that is what I’m struggling right now…

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You have to pass the variable through the URL into the iframe, as a GET variable.

You should just try the example as it is and get it working and then have a look at the files generated by Studio and get your code-only customizations from there. Studio is often the easiest way to figure things out, even if you don’t want to depend on it later for other strategic reasons.

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I did it. This is in the src of the Iframe:
“http://suite/index.php?entryPoint=chartJS&account_id={$fields.id.value}”

Pulled it in the sql query:
account_id = ‘{$_REQUEST[‘account_id’]}’

Cheerios!

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Don’t forget to add in a bit of security sanitizing to avoid SQL injections into your entrypoint.

$account_id = DBManagerFactory::getInstance()->quote($_REQUEST['account_id']);
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This returns an empty string when I try to output it using ‘print_r’? I have not done any sanitizing yet as I am new to suiteCRM and in the phase of getting used to the system…

Edit: Forgot to change the backticks when I copied your code :confounded: