Data Resource unavailable for Gadgets of Custom Entity

By | December 20, 2019

Sage CRM always provides super handy functionality to users, which is supportive in daily tasks. For users like marketing or sales one of the time saving feature provided by Sage CRM is Gadget’s on dashboard. Gadgets are shows information of entities as per user’s preference.

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As we know, when the custom entity is added to Sage CRM using the Advanced Customization Wizard (Entity Wizard) only the tables is created. For now we assume user creating custom entity name as “Machine”. If user wants to create a Gadget for custom entity they found below the message that “There are no data resource available” as shown in below screenshot.

Dashboard
Dashboard

As we know only the table is created. To create a data resource for gadget i.e. Reports, Saved Searches or Save Advance find etc. For creating this refer below link: 3 Easy Steps to Add Sage CRM Custom Entity in Advanced Find

Report
Report

To create Report or Group as a data resource for custom entity. Need to create the source view for that. To create, view follow the step 1 in above link. After the view is created its available for report and group. As shown in below screenshot.

Advance Find
Advance Find

To Create Saved Advanced Search for custom entity, first we need to add custom entity in the entity list. To add the custom entity in Entity list follow the Step 2 and Step 3 in above link,

After the procedure completed as shown in above link. User can see Custom entity option in entity list as shown in below screenshot.

For adding Advanced Saved search for custom entity refer the below link, Constructing Complex Saved Searches using Advanced Find in Sage CRM

After user completes above steps they can see a data resource for custom entity to create gadgets. As below and easily add gadgets for custom entity.

Gadget Wizard
Gadget Wizard

Hope this information helps.

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