V-Tiger 6 How to make a Pick List with Database value - vtiger

Question

I am very new V-Tiger CRM. What I would like to achieve is.I have a custom picklist in Create Vendor form. I know I can populate it by adding PickList Values. But I would like to fetch the Nationality from my custom database table .
My Nationality table looks like ( nationality_id nationality_name ). I need to fetch these values to custom picklist in my vendore create form

Answer 1

You can achive it using customization as below:
Open modules\Vendors\views\Edit.php
in process function add below code:
$sql_get = 'SELECT * FROM nationality_table_name';
$sql_get_result = $adb->query($sql_get);
for($i=0;$i<$adb->num_rows($sql_get_result);$i++){
$nationality[$i]['code'] = $adb->query_result($sql_get_result,$i,'nationality_id');
$nationality[$i]['name'] = $adb->query_result($sql_get_result,$i,'nationality_name');
}
$viewer->assign('nationality', $nationality);
parent::process($request);
2: Create new file in given location
\layouts\vlayout\modules\Vendors\uitypes\Picklist.tpl
{strip}
{assign var="FIELD_INFO" value=Zend_Json::encode($FIELD_MODEL->getFieldInfo())}
{assign var=PICKLIST_VALUES value=$FIELD_MODEL->getPicklistValues()}
{assign var="SPECIAL_VALIDATOR" value=$FIELD_MODEL->getValidator()}
{assign var=FIELD_NAME value=$FIELD_MODEL->getFieldName()}
{assign var=FIELD_NAME value=$FIELD_MODEL->getFieldName()}
{if $FIELD_NAME eq 'nationality_dropdown_name'}
<select class="chzn-select {if $OCCUPY_COMPLETE_WIDTH} row-fluid {/if}" name="{$FIELD_NAME}" data-validation-engine="validate[{if $FIELD_MODEL->isMandatory() eq true} required,{/if}funcCall[Vtiger_Base_Validator_Js.invokeValidation]]" data-fieldinfo='{$FIELD_INFO|escape}' {if !empty($SPECIAL_VALIDATOR)}data-validator='{Zend_Json::encode($SPECIAL_VALIDATOR)}'{/if} data-selected-value='{$FIELD_MODEL->get('fieldvalue')}'>
{if $FIELD_MODEL->isEmptyPicklistOptionAllowed()}<option value="">{vtranslate('LBL_SELECT_OPTION','Vtiger')}</option>{/if}
{foreach item=PICKLIST_VALUE key=PICKLIST_NAME from=$nationality}
<option value="{$PICKLIST_VALUE['code']}" {if trim(decode_html($FIELD_MODEL->get('fieldvalue'))) eq trim($PICKLIST_VALUE['code'])} selected {/if}>{$PICKLIST_VALUE['name']}</option>
{/foreach}
</select>
{/if}
{/strip}
Please update the code as per your fieldnames and test. Cheers!!