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It is now a whole lot easier to offer per-user pricing for your add-ons. For many add-ons based on per-user pricing, it makes sense to charge only for the users that will actually be using it. Our License API has always supported that, but it was up to your solution to manage which users should have access. As of today, our SampleLicenseAddon now includes a new option to turn on user license management. Simply enable the manage_licensed_users option and your customers can now determine which users can use your add-on. What's really neat is that they can also purchase additional licenses right from within SugarCRM.

In the latest patches to SugarCRM version 7, you may have run into a "Data not available" error immediately after installing a module or while trying to go to your new module's end points using the Sugar App router. There is an easy fix to this common problem.

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...

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.