Official / Standard method to display Modals / Dialogues

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Hi All,

I’ve been going through the CRM source code to find the official / standard / proper SuiteCRM way to display a modal window using the libraries which come with the CRM,

The email settings page has a global function called overlay
which is not available on any other page, and similarly in the module builder module, the global SUGAR object has a property MessageBox but not on any other page.
These two pages seem to use these javascript functions and objects for powering Modal windows.

There is also a global YAHOO object which seems to be available everywhere,
I have a hunch the implementations above use this YAHOO object however I am not too sure.

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You can find the words on the GitHub to find the code files.

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Does this mean there is no standard for doing this?

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What modal window? Can you please share the screenshots?

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Those Yahoo objects are something called YUI (for Yahoo UI library)

There are different options if you just want a message box with standard buttons, or if you want a full modal (similar to an edit view with fields).

Search for YAHOO.widget.Dialog

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Thanks @pgr,

I was leaning towards this,
I’ll into the documentation for YUI