Turn Multi Select Boxes into Checkboxes

First, I am sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, I searched first with no luck, but is anyone aware of a way to turn the multi-select boxes into multi select check boxes?

It looks like there is a paid module for this here:
https://www.sugaroutfitters.com/addons/multienum-as-checkboxes

Also, something on GitHub, which I cannot seem to figure out here:
https://github.com/bickart/SugarCRM-CheckboxMultiEnum

The main reason for this, the first link nails is:
-Users seems to have two left hands and canā€™t remember the Ctrl+click or Shift+Click tips
-Your multi-select list is now so long that it is hard to locate the option you want to select
-You just wanted to add one new option but your forgot to press Ctrl so you lose the 49 other options already selected

Hi cmacdonald,
I have the same problems/needs. Have you been able to figure this out?
Thanks,
Greg

Was a solution ever found to this?

Hi audioillity,

Not to my knowledge.

Greg

I actually managed to get it working, seems the file transfer client was hiding some file permissions from me ā€¦ Iā€™m still playing with it at the moment to see if it fully works.

@audioillity, did you get this to work? We need this also. Using CTRL to multi-select is a pita.

@audioillity. We gave up on this ages ago. I spent waaaay too much time trying to figure it out. If you have anything like step-by-step I would greatly appreciate it.

Iā€™ll try bickartā€™s Github hack on our test environment and report back with results.

github.com/bickart/SugarCRM-CheckboxMultiEnum

Hi guys

Did anyone manage to make this work ?

multicrm

You need to contact SuiteCRM developers(https://www.techesperto.com/suitecrm-development/), most probably they can do

Hi Multi,

I havenā€™t tried the ā€˜bickartā€™ hack yet. Iā€™ll report here if and when.

I quickly tried to adapt Jeff Bickartā€™s Sugar 6 hack for Suite 7.11 and failed miserably. Apologies to all.

Thereā€™s a good chance my adaptation of Jeffā€™s code was incorrectly executed. When I get a spare few hours, I will try again.

I think itā€™s a classic example of very clever Devs not really understanding UX. Given the choice, multi select checkboxes should be the default, not dropdowns. Ordinary uses donā€™t relate to CTRL + [any key].

Just my $0.02

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I tried Bickartā€™s SugarCRM 6 hack on SuiteCRM 7.11. It displays MultiSelect dropdown as checkboxes after rebuilding Extensions. But it caused the ā€œSaveā€ button not to respond. Does anyone have the same issue?

Has anyone figured out a solution of turning MultiSelect dropdown into checkboxes on SuiteCRM 7.11? Thanks!

Got the same requirement, multiple checkbox in one field, not 1 field for a checkbox.

If I find a solution, Iā€™ll post it here !

Just to reply here for anyone wanting this, this work 100% :

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