I wrote a few posts about SugarCRM some time ago, including ways to play with their SOAP interface to gather and input data. Today we’ll discuss the flexibility of SugarCRM and the way it could nicely fit into an applicant tracking system. In short, almost every aspect of SugarCRM is a module. Leads, opportunities, tasks, projects. All these are modules. SugarCRM comes with a Module Builder...
How To: Retrieve a User ID via SOAP in SugarCRM
Following the Lead Generation Forms with WordPress and SugarCRM post, I came across the need to assign the generated lead to some person in the CRM. It would be easy if you could do it by simply using usernames in the system, but unfortunately usernames may change, but user IDs do not. User IDs in SugarCRM are stored in a 36-byte alphanumeric string with symbols, which is easy to capture from the...
Lead Generation Forms with WordPress and SugarCRM
It took me quite some time to get around this, but I finally managed to get it working. As you might have heard, SugarCRM has a Community Edition, which is open source and free of charge. It’s a very neat tool to play with and it’s functionality will suit most SMEs and maybe some corporations. I started playing with Sugar a few months ago, mostly with the modules functionality. Cannot...