Suitecrm: SUGAR.settings is undefined

[ArturoBurela]

Issue

According to documentation, using $this->addDomJS($data, 'vardefs'); within a custom view should make vardefs accessible in Javascript but the SUGAR.settings object is undefined

Expected Behavior

The vardefs (or any other object) should be accessible through JavaScript. https://docs.suitecrm.com/images/en/developer/vardefs.png

Actual Behavior

SUGAR.settings object is undefined, no error logs. suitecrm.log is empty, php error.log is empty too and no warnings or errors are shown in the browser console.

Possible Fix

Sorry, I have no possible fix but maybe is related to issue #3006 and pr #3008

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a custom view class

class ViewCustomDetail extends ViewDetail
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->useForSubpanel = true;
        $this->useModuleQuickCreateTemplate = true;
        $data = $this->getVardefsData('pud_Applicant');
        $this->addDomJS($data, 'vardefs');
        $jose = array(
            'name' => 'Jose',
            'country' => 'Argentina',
            'footballTeam' => 'River Plate',
            'footballTeamLastTitles' => array(
                'Copa Sudamericana 2014',
                'Copa Libertadores de América 2015',
                'Copa Suruga Bank 2015',
                'Recopa Sudamericana 2015',
                'Recopa Sudamericana 2016',
                'Copa Libertadores de América 2018',
            ),
        );
        $this->addDomJS(array($jose), 'developerData');
    }

    public function display()
    {
         parent::display();
    }
}

1. Custom controller overriding detail view

class pud_ApplicantController extends SugarController
{
    protected function action_detailview()
    {
        //set the new custom view
        $this->view = 'customdetail';
    }
}

1. Install the module, quick repair and rebuild
2. Access the custom view in the browser and try to print SUGAR.settings object in the console

Context

I'm trying to read bean data from JavaScript so I can use it in a custom script to display a pdf document conditionally using PDFJS.

Your Environment

• SuiteCRM Version used: Version 7.11.6 / Sugar Version 6.5.25 (Build 344)
• Browser name and version: Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0 64 bit
• Environment name and version: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, MariaDB 10.1, Apache 2.4.29
• Operating System and version: Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:67.0

[pgorod]

@Abuelodelanada you might want to take a look at this

[Abuelodelanada]

Hi @pgorod

I'll take a look!

[Abuelodelanada]

Hi @pgorod

I have found that this problem appears only if you use AjaxUI.
If you do not use AjaxUI everything works fine.

I keep investigating...