{"id":212,"date":"2013-10-31T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandidor.info\/wp\/?p=212"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:50:40","slug":"create-appointments-meetings-in-sugarcrm-via-rest-and-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandidor.info\/wp\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Create appointments (meetings) in SugarCRM via REST and perl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subject<\/strong><\/h1>\n
To prepare for some bigger project I plan with SugarCRM I decided to write a client program, which would create new appointments or meetings as they call it in SugarCRM.<\/div>\n
Initially I was planning just to program a tool to create dummy data, but soon learned that creating an appointment is a bit more complicated task than for example creating a contact or an account.<\/div>\n

Challenge<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Digging through numerous examples, studying database structure and so on I soon realized that creating an appointment even for just one person, i.e. appointment owner, will require 3 following steps:<\/div>\n
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  1. Create ‘Meeting’ object<\/li>\n
  2. Create ‘Meeting’ to ‘Contact’ relation<\/li>\n
  3. Create ‘Meeting’ to ‘User’ relation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now looking at the list above I have to correct myself. I’ll be creating appointments for 2 persons, one being an appointment owner and another one being an appointment contact. Think of it as you (appointment owner) are going to visit a customer (appointment contact).<\/p>\n

    Another challenge, which is worth to be mentioned is my personal addiction to perl<\/code> as a scripting language. I especially like it for client-side development, but it’s not so often used in connection with SugarCRM, which is written in php<\/code>. So, googling is of a limited help here looking for examples.<\/div>\n
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    Platform<\/b><\/span>\/Tools<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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