Custom app calling doctypes from different modules

Frappe Framework App Development
1

Hello everyone,
I am making a new app that is gathering a series of existing doctypes from ERPnext into the same place. I noticed that there is a way in the backend, of course, to call for other doctypes from other modules. If you take a look at the Accounts Module of ERPnext. You will notice a section call Masters and it contains doctypes from the Selling Module. That’s what I am trying to achieve here, I looked at the desktop.py for Accounts and saw the code that I thought would link this, so I made a quick example in my custom app but nothing pulls through. There we no tutorials on how to do this, can anyone help me grasp this concept.

Here the code I used.

-- coding: utf-8 --

from future import unicode_literals
from frappe import _

def get_data():
return [
{
“module_name”: “Membership”,
“color”: “#1777CB”,
“icon”: “fa fa-users”,
“type”: “module”,
“label”: _(“Membership”)
},
{
“label”: _(“Masters”),
“items”: [
{
“type”: “doctype”,
“name”: “Customer”,
“description”: _(“Customer database.”)
},
{
“type”: “doctype”,
“name”: “Supplier”,
“description”: _(“Supplier database.”)
},
{
“type”: “doctype”,
“name”: “Item”,
},
{
“type”: “doctype”,
“name”: “Asset”,
},
{
“type”: “doctype”,
“name”: “Asset Category”,
}
]
},
]

2

What exactly are you trying to do with this?

If you want to pull in a document, just use frappe.get_doc, or frappe.get_value for single values.

If you want a whole set of data, using frappe.db.sql queries can be quicker / easier.

3

I think @Angel_Marchena is attempting to add doctype links to his custom module. As in, there’s a link to Item in Accounts, but Item lives in Stock.

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4

That is correct, I want to call different doctypes from other modules. I am trying to create a module that gathers specify doctypes in one place.

5

Would this work to call something similar to this.

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as you see here this is the Accounts Module, but it has the “Master” Section with multiple Doctypes that are of a different module.

6

have a look at:

https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/blob/develop/erpnext/config/accounts.py#L80

7

That is where I pulled my code from, never the less it working at all. Remember this is in a custom app. Even when I try to install it gives me an error. I think on the top of the code its needs to import from ERPnext.

8

Honestly I am not getting your point on what you need to do …

9

As I stated before in the original post, I am making a custom app that is gathering certain doctypes from other modules. I pulled the code from your sample before…its the same code I used in one of my examples…It doesn’t work its missing something.

10

Can you share a link to your repo so we can see your full code?

11

Did u install erpnext app?

12

I posted the full code of the desktop.py inside the custom app

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from frappe import _

def get_data():
        return [
                {
                        "module_name": "Membership",
                        "color": "#1777CB",
                        "icon": "fa fa-users",
                        "type": "module",
                        "label": _("Membership")
                },
                        "label": _("Masters"),
                        "items": [
  {
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Customer",
											"description": _("Customer database.")
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Supplier",
                                        "description": _("Supplier database.")
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Item",
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Asset",
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Asset Category",
                                }
                        ]
                },
        ]
13

Ofcourse.

14

@Angel_Marchena Go to config folder, delete desktop.pyc and reload page.

And you have to put the code inside config/yourmodulename.py

15

There is no file like that in the custom APP.

16

That means desktop.py is not getting compiled in your app …

17

I did this, it still not working, I checked the code and corrected a couple of syntax errors, but nothing its pulling through, the APP won’t even show on Erpnext

18

did u install the app?

19

Yeah. Man here is the code
# -- coding: utf-8 --
from future import unicode_literals
from frappe import _
from erpnext import _

def get_data():
        return [
                {
                        "module_name": "Membership",
                        "color": "#1777CB",
                        "icon": "fa fa-users",
                        "type": "module",
                        "label": _("Membership")
                },
  {
                        "label": _("Masters"),
                        "items": [
                                                       {
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Customer",
                                                                                                                                                       "description": _("Customer database.")
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Supplier",
                                        "description": _("Supplier database.")
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Item",
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Asset",
                                },
                                {
                                        "type": "doctype",
                                        "name": "Asset Category",
                                },
                                }
                        ]
                }
        ]
20

Let me know if you know how to because I feel stupid.