Need help creating custom view/template for the contact enity

[devespo]

I am reading documentation for creating custom views at: https://www.espocrm.com/documentatio.../custom-views/

Can built in entity types have their views overridden? Or is this for Custom entities only?

What is the difference between views and recordViews?

I tried to override detail view of the Contact entity as follows

Following instructions I created file:

custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/metadata/clientDefs/Contact.json

{
  "recordViews": {
    "detail": "custom:views/contact/record/detail"
  }
}

The I created following file:

client/custom/src/views/contact/record/detail.js

Espo.define('custom:views/contact/record/detail', 'views/record/detail', function (Dep) {

  return Dep.extend({
    template: 'custom:views/contact/record/detail',

    setup: function () {
      Dep.prototype.setup.call(this);
    },

    afterRender: function () {
      Dep.prototype.afterRender.call(this);
    }
  });
});

Then I created following file:

client/custom/res/templates/contact/record/detail.tpl

By

cp client/res/templates/record/detail.tpl client/custom/res/templates/contact/record/detail.tpl

And adding a minor "hellow world" text at the beginning of the first div.

In admin I rebuilt the crm.

I am not seeing the hello world in contact entity record detail page.


What am I missing here?

[Andorxor]

Did you reload the page?

[yuri]

Change:

template: 'custom:views/contact/record/detail'
=>
template: 'custom:contact/record/detail'

I recommend checking browser console

[devespo]

Thank you Yuri, that fixed the issue. How can I access entity variable in this template so that I can use if in iframe src?

[yuri]

Check https://github.com/espocrm/documenta...opment/view.md

{{viewObject.someParam1}}

[devespo]

Thank you Yuri, I was able to access it with {{viewObject.attributes.someParam1}}

[bandtank]

What is the difference between views and recordViews?

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same questions.

[rabii]

check this out https://forum.espocrm.com/forum/deve...hing#post61108
it will explain the difference between both