How to retrieve any module fields in a dropdown in sugarcrm?

I don't have v13 but I would start by looking at the code that generates that dropdown you have as an example.

The field names are in the metadata.

You could leverage the /metadata API with type_filter = "modules" and "module_filter" = the name of the module you are interested in, this will give you all the metadata for that module. From there you can extract the "fields" and from there their names their names.

See Matt Marum's post here:

 3 Tips for using the Sugar Metadata API 

And possibly do a query based dropdown, there's an example I wrote  some time ago here:

 Create dropdown from module records 

FrancescaS

Hello Francesca Shiekh,

Thank you I got that list according to modules and filtered the data.

I want to ask you one question that was regarding this,

I created a blank dropdown using Vardefs when I installed a plugin but when I saved the data according to the modules it saved in db but did not reflect on record view.

for ex:-

db record



Record view 



How do we display the record? 

The field is multi-select.

Good point, in the few places where I use query based dropdowns I do not save the values in the same field, I use the dropdown to populate a text field.

The reason you are not seeing the values in the front end, even though they exist in the back end, is that the Language files do not have the label=>value translation. Sugar, by default, will display nothing if the value stored in an enum or multi-enum field is not in the corresponding dropdown definition.

Unfortunately, I did not consider this when responding to your post. I apologize for that.

My first instinct is that you will need to work with the mulitenum field definition and find a way to dynamically populate the dropdown definition.

Andre Serrazina , André Lopes how would you tackle this problem?
Did I set Kishan Singh  in the wrong direction?

Hello Francesca Shiekh,

No worries, you are here to guide us. We are new here.
The answers are on the point of what I ask. So, thank you for helping me out.

One question for this, can we display the record without adding it to the dropdown list?

I am afraid this is beyond my ability to help.

I hope someone else can be of help to you.

Sorry
Francesca

Hello Francesca Shiekh,

No worries if I find any way to do that I will share this thought as well with you.

Thanks, Francesca Shiekh for guiding me.

Hello Francesca Shiekh,

I got the way and it is working fine for me.

Thanks for helping me.

Hello Francesca Shiekh,

I got the way and it is working fine for me.

Thanks for helping me.