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One of the many challenges in creating SugarCRM add-ons meant for mass distribution is adding new fields to a given installation's layouts. Simply instructing folks to go to Studio and add your key fields to each view causes so many issues. Any time you rely 100% on someone following an installation guide there is a much greater chance that...

At first glance, it may look like SugarOutfitters is great only for independent software vendors (ISV) who are solely focused on making add-ons. However, it is great for anyone who provides additional services like implementation, process consulting, training, and so on. Used correctly, SugarOutfitters can be a very nice lead generation tool for your company.

So you have a killer idea and you want to know if it will sell. Actually creating it doesn't worry you. You've done it many times before. The great unknown is if you put all of that work into an add-on, will people buy it?

Continuing on our journey of creating a module from scratch in SugarCRM 7, we left off last week with getting the skeleton structure in place. Basically it was a "Hello World" implementation. This week we will start to build out the controller to handle stepping through various steps of a wizard.

Since we are completing rewriting SugarChimp for SugarCRM 7 we figured this would be a good opportunity to share how to create a module from scratch. More specifically, in this series we will cover how to create a nice onboarding process for a new user just getting started with the integration. To start, lets create our first layout and view in the new Sidecar framework.