The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications (Paperback)

SugarCRM is a leading open source Customer Relations Management tool and development platform with nearly 5.5 million downloads, nearly 17,000 developers, and lots more users.

The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM is the first official SugarCRM book available to developers and users. This definitive book begins by talking about the SugarCRM platform components, namely MVC, Studio, Module Builder, authentication, and themes.

Next, you see how to customize the modules SugarCRM comes with out of the box in an upgrade-safe manner. The text then presents an example application that a typical business might use and shows how to build it using SugarCRM, using both existing functionality as well as newly added functionality.

What you'll learn

• Understand how the SugarCRM platform works
• Customize the modules that come with SugarCRM
• Build new modules and functionality into SugarCRM
• Explore MVC architecture, users/authentication, built-in modules, and other platform features
• Use SugarCRM Studio for customizations, logic hooks, and overriding existing code
• Build on top of SugarCRM using Module Builder, custom modules, and existing/custom modules mashups
• Design a complete application

Who is this book for?

Any business application developers and consultants looking to build or deploy a custom business application. CIOs and IT administrators will also be interested.

SugarCRM是一個領先的開源客戶關係管理工具和開發平台，擁有近550萬次下載、近17,000名開發人員和更多的用戶。

《The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM》是第一本針對開發人員和用戶的官方SugarCRM書籍。這本權威性的書籍首先介紹了SugarCRM平台的組件，包括MVC、Studio、Module Builder、身份驗證和主題。

接下來，您將學習如何以可升級的方式自定義SugarCRM中的預設模塊。然後，本書提供了一個典型企業可能使用的應用程序示例，並展示了如何使用SugarCRM來構建它，包括使用現有功能和新增功能。

您將學到以下內容：
- 瞭解SugarCRM平台的工作原理
- 自定義SugarCRM中的預設模塊
- 在SugarCRM中建立新的模塊和功能
- 探索MVC架構、用戶/身份驗證、內建模塊和其他平台功能
- 使用SugarCRM Studio進行自定義、邏輯鉤子和覆蓋現有代碼
- 使用Module Builder、自定義模塊和現有/自定義模塊混搭來擴展SugarCRM
- 設計一個完整的應用程序

這本書適合以下讀者：
- 任何希望構建或部署自定義業務應用程序的業務應用程序開發人員和顧問
- CIO和IT管理員也會對此感興趣。