IN THIS ISSUE Beta 2 Coming Soon! Sugar Developer Newswire

Beta 2 Coming Soon!

Are you ready for another test drive? Sugar Community Edition 5.0 Beta 2 is scheduled for delivery towards the end of September. Here are the features that you can look  foward to:

• Upgrades
  • Ability to upgrade from 4.5.1 versions of the product to 5.0
• Module Builder and Studio
  • Support for additional field types:
    • Phone fields (new type for easier Asterisk integration)
    • Dropdown function custom field (new type similar to a calculated field)
    • Parent type custom field (new type to allow selecting a module to relate to a record to)
    • Relate type custom field (new type to allow relating a record to a fixed module)
    • Address type custom field (new type for grouping multiple fields of an address)
    • Currency custom field (new type)
    • Multi-select (new type for Studio only)
    • HTML type custom field (existing type)
  • Field Labels editor
• Emails
  • POP3 functionality
  • Improved UI
• Print function style sheet
• Quick Create in Meta-Data-driven UI
• Search Form editor
• Sitemap
  • View all available modules & module actions at a glance
  • Quick way to access Create and other module actions

Please bear in mind that this a tentative list and is subject to changes. Discuss 5.0 beta 2 in this forum.

Sugar Developer Newswire

• We have two excellent posts in our Forums about the Release 5.0 upgrade process. Following are topics covered in each post:
  • Part One
    • Timeframe and Scope
    • High-level upgrade process characteristics
  • Part Two
    • Details of the Upgrade Process
    • Schema Modifications
• We've exceeded 2600 files available for download across all SugarForge projects and have surpassed the 10,000 developer mark.
• Sugar Community Edition 5.0 GA is scheduled for delivery in the mid- to late-October timeframe
• Chris Harrick, Director of Product Marketing at SugarCRM wrote a nice Technical Whitepaper titled, "Building Custom Modules with Sugar 5.0". Chris explains how to create a Custom Module, edit fields and layout, create relationships, publish, upload and use that module.
• Please join David Moceri and Max Blackmer from RapidX Development for our Miami SDUG event on the afternoon of Monday, September 24th, 2007, the day before the CRM Acceleration event. We'll have several Sugar Team members on hand to talk about the upcoming 5.0 release, and we'll have community members present technical topics of interest.

- The SugarForge Team