Author Archives: greysagecrm

Mapping Component Issues

Recently while installing the Standard Mapping Component in SageCRM component manager, I encountered below error. As seen from the error message highlighted above its caused because of missing Clustered indexes on Company and Lead tables. I was a bit surprised knowing the reason of error as Indexes are by default defined on CRM database by… Read More »

How the address is arranged over multiple lines?

In Sage CRM, you can see address of Person arranged over multiple lines as shown below. This is because the corresponding view under the Address entity is written as follows. CREATE VIEW vAddress AS SELECT ISNULL(rtrim(Addr_Address1), ”) +’ ‘+ ISNULL(rtrim(Addr_Address2), ”) +’ ‘+ ISNULL(rtrim(Addr_Address3), ”) +’ ‘+ ISNULL(rtrim(Addr_Address4), ”) +’ ‘+ ISNULL(rtrim(Addr_Address5), ”) AS Addr_Street,… Read More »

Date fields in task and appointment

I see most of the new users/developers training on SageCRM face this question while they work on Appointments and Tasks module. In sage CRM logic used for “Comm_DateTime” and “Comm_ToDateTime” field in Tasks/Appointment is bit difficult to understand. Developers don’t understand how the validation of date range occurs. Here I will explain you how the… Read More »

Sending an e-mail to customer Case is created

In Sage CRM, for creating the case there is standard workflow or we can create the new workflow as per our requirement also. Not only for cases, workflow can also be defined for other entities like opportunity, lead, etc. In workflow, there is one action as “Send E-mail”. This action is used to send emails… Read More »

Mirror fields in Sage CRM

In Sage CRM, is it possible to create same column name in two different tables? Yes, it is possible. Mirroring a Field stands for creating a column with the same name and same signature in two distinct tables. To understand these in a better way assume that not only I want to create a field… Read More »

Set field length at run time in Sage CRM

There are different types of fields in Sage CRM. Well obviously we can change/set the field length as per our convenient and depending upon the data that would be user filling while entering the data. Suppose we need to change the field length then you need to do refer the below link. https://www.greytrix.com/blogs/sagecrm/2008/12/29/changing-field-length-of-a-text-field/ Alternate way… Read More »