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What is Tidbit?

Tidbit is a data generation tool for the Sugar application.

Tidbit Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through the process of installing and running Tidbit. The only requirement is a working installation of Sugar.

Step 1: Clone git repository from Github

To download Tidbit, first ‘cd’ to the root directory of your Sugar installation. Then:

git clone git://github.com/sugarcrm/Tidbit.git

This will create a ‘Tidbit’ directory in your Sugar installation’s root directory.

Then Download composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Install composer dependencies inside Tidbit directory

./composer.phar install

Step 2: Run Tidbit command line script

First, ‘cd’ to your Tidbit directory. The command-line interface script for Tidbit is install_cli.php. Here’s a simple usage example:

php install_cli.php -l 10

This uses a ‘load’ factor of 10, meaning that 10 Accounts will be created, and records in other modules will be created in proportion to that number of accounts. The ratios are controlled by the values in the $modules array, located in install_config.php.
$modules is an array that maps module names to integer values. The default settings map ‘Accounts’ to 1000 and ‘Contacts’ to 4000, so 4 Contacts will be created for every 1 Account.

Another example:

php install_cli.php -l 50 -o --allmodules --allrelationships

Like in the prior example, we use a ‘load’ argument. The ‘-o’ flag is for ‘obliterate’ mode. This will erase all data in tables populated by Tidbit before creating new data.
The ‘—allmodules’ flag tells Tidbit to generate records for any custom modules built using Module Builder. The ‘—allrelationships’ flag tells Tidbit to generate relationships between the records it creates whenever possible.

For a complete listing of command line options, you can display the usage string with the following:

php install_cli.php -h

Documentation of command line options can be found in this article.

DONE: Sugar is ready for testing!

If you now open Sugar in your browser you will see it is populated with CRM data. It is ready for you to perform your testing!

Useful Articles how to extend or change Tidbit

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