JV JSBridge
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- Category: Joomla! Extensions
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JV JSBridge is an extension that works as a bridge between Joomla!® and Sugar. With this extension you can synchronize users and contacts information between Joomla! and Sugar easily. How to install and configure JV JSBridge for Joomla! and Sugar.
Firstly, you need to go to the download page to download the installation package. After you have downloaded the package, extract it to your hard drive then you will get 3 zip files com_jvsugarcrmbridge.zip, plg_jvsugarcrmbridge.zip and JomlaBridge.zip. Please do not try to extract these files. To have the extension installed please follow the following steps.
Install JV JSBridge for Joomla! v5.x.
Intsall Component com_jvsugarcrmbridge:
- Navigate to Joomla! Administrator in the browser, and then go to Extension --> Install/Uninstall.
- In the Upload Package File field set, click the Browse button and locate to the place where you save the com_jvsugarcrmbridge.zip file, select it and click open.
- Click Upload File & Install then the package will be loaded and installed.
Intsall plug-in jvsugarcrmbridge:
- Navigate to Joomla! Administrator in the browser, and then go to Extension --> Install/Uninstall.
- In the Upload Package File field set, click the Browse button and locate to the place where you save the plg_jvsugarcrmbridge.zip file, select it and click open.
- Click Upload File & Install then the package will be loaded and installed.
Set the parameters to connect to SugarCRM database:
- Navigate to Joomla! Administrator in the browser, and then go to Component --> JvSugarcrm bridge
- Click Parameters
- Configure the required parameters as below to create the connection to Sugar database:
- Database host name: enter the database host name
- Database user name: enter the user name that used to login to Sugar database
- Database password: enter the password that used to login to Sugar database
- Database name: the name of the Sugar database to be connected to
- Database type: the type of the database (such as: mySQL, SQL server…)
- Joomla! User to Sugar: select either Sugar "Users" or "Leads" to synchronize.
- If you choose "Users", the users' information will be synchronized. When you login to Sugar and go to User Management you can view Joomla's users.
- If you choose "Leads", the contacts' information will be synchronized. When you login to Sugar and go to Lead you can view Joomla's contacts.
- After you have completed all settings, click Save. Set parameters for JS Bridge in Joomla!
Install JV JSBridge for SugarCRM 5.x-6.0
Install JSBridge
- At the admin page, go to Developer Tools --> Module Loader
- Browse to the place where the JoomlaBridge.zip file is located, select it then click upload.
- After uploaded, the JoomlaBridge module will be shown.
- Press the Install button to go to the installation part.
- Press Commit to proceed the installation.
Settings
- At the Admin page go to Joomla! Bridge
- Complete the Form Setting to build the connection to Joomla!:
- Database type: the database type used in Joomla! (Joomla! use only MySQL for now)
- Host name: database hostname
- User name/Password: the user name/ password used to login to Joomla! database
- Table Prefix: Joomla's table name prefix (the default value of Joomla is jos_)
- User group id default: the user group ID for user in Joomla (the default value in Joomla! 1.5.x is '18')
- User type default: user type for user in Joomla! (the default value in Joomla! is 'Registered')
- After you have completed all settings, click Save.
Disable System-generated password feature
- Since the password encoding encoding in SugarCRM and in Joomla is different so we should disable the auto-generate password function in SugarCRM
- How to: at the Admin page, go to Password Management, uncheck Enable System-Generated Passwords feature then click Save.
Note: When you add new user/contact or edit existing user/contact in Joomla! database, you have to click the Synchronize button in order to sync the new information with Sugar. For Sugar, you do not need to click Synchronize since the synchronize process will automatically takes place.
