Internals
UI Control Flow
There are two essential flow that controls UI (view & action).
View - expects the outcome to be HTML / Redirection.
Action - expects the outcome to be JSON (specially useful for Ajax)
Example:
index.php?module=Leads&view=List
Leads/views/List.php
If this is not found - the fallback file would be:
Vtiger/views/List.php
Similarly:
index.php?module=MyModule&action=Save
Leads/actions/Save.php
If this is not found - the fallback file would be:
Vtiger/actions/Save.php
UI Request Processing
main/Web_UI invokes the appropriate view / action class method in the following order:
| checkPermission($request) | Handle custom permission control before control proceeds with processing. Authentication & User access to module would have happened before to this call. |
|---|---|
| preProcess($request) | Invocation is suppressed if the request is made via AJAX. Generally this method emits the Header portion of the page. |
| process($request) | Invoked for both normal / ajax request. |
| postProcess($request) | Invocation is suppressed if the request is made via AJAX. Generally this method emits the Footer portion of the page. |
Webservice Control Flow
Note
Yet to be documented - please be patient.
Eventing
Note
Yet to be documented - please be patient.
Resource File Paths
getHeaderScripts&getHeaderCss supports shorthand syntax for specifying the dependent resources to be loaded for the client-side.
| Reference Type | Format | Resolves To |
|---|---|---|
| Layout Relative | modules.Vtiger.resources.List | layouts/<current_layout>/modules/Vtiger/resources/List |
| Absolute | ~/libraries/fullcalendar/fullcalendar.css | <vtigercrm>/libraries/fullcalendar/fullcalendar.css |
| Remote | http://remote.server.tld/js/function.js |