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Extending SugarCRM with WebSphere sMash

Posted by nicholsr on April 6th, 2008. Other posts by nicholsr

I uploaded another YouTube video for ProjectZero today:
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This screencast illustrates the use of a Project Zero Flow to extend SugarCRM. In the video, I am running SugarCRM on Project Zero under the browser based web tooling.

I use the web tooling to write a snippet of PHP code to extract information from a SugarCRM business event; the creation of a new meeting. I then POST this information in JSON form into a flow that I created in the Assemble visual tooling. This provides a simple workflow which interacts with individuals in the enterprise via email and web forms before updating the object in SugarCRM. I used the REST to SOAP facility in the connection API to provide a REST web service on top of SugarCRM’s existing SOAP interfaces.

As I built this I was pleased to find just how well the tools and technology in Project Zero work together to make this kind of extension easy to create and to change.

If you are attending IBM’s Impact Conference this year in Las Vegas, why not come to session 2844 On Thursday at 4:45 in Room 119 to hear myself and Jacob Taylor CTO and Co-founder of SugarCRM talk more about this.

Transcript and Download and YouTube

One Response to “Extending SugarCRM with WebSphere sMash”

  1. Project Zero » Blog Archive » WebSphere sMash is Project of the month on SugarForge Says:

    [...] have not been resting over the past weeks, what with showing at Impact in Las Vegas, building the screencast for YouTube showing integration of Sugar with the Assemble Flow tooling and the REST2SOAP facility in sMash and [...]