Developer Guide 13.1

Question

This is supposed to be the Developer Guide for 13.1 Sugar Developer Guide 13.1 - Sugar Support (sugarcrm.com) but it then states The techniques below cannot be used with Sugar's cloud service. ?

Olivia Forde · Accepted Answer

Hi Olivia, 
 Unless something drastically changed, I don't think that page is worded very well... 
 I cannot find your words exactly in the link you sent but they do state "... Sugar's cloud service cannot directly access their database's file system but can work with a Certified Sugar Partner to customize their Sugar deployment." 
 The reality is that Cloud customers cannot access the database directly nor can you access the filesystem of your application, BUT you can have a local copy of your Sugar instance for development purposes and you can package your changes for deployment to your cloud instance via the Module Loader. 
 To create those packages you can work with a partner, or you can learn how to package and deploy changes yourself. 
 There are more limitations when working within the extension framework than if you had an OnSite deployment, but that is not a bad thing, in my opinion. 
 FrancescaS

Olivia Forde · Answer

Because it is for 13.1 and you can't use it directly on a cloud environment. You would setup a local environment ( Vagrant Development Environment - Sugar Support (sugarcrm.com) ) to develop in and load your code through module loader ( Cookbook - Sugar Support (sugarcrm.com) ) or put in a ticket if you need any MySQL Scripts ran.