Firstly, an apology - after much reading I'm not even sure I have the right forum. I was looking for the forum relating to the Zoho database our charity uses - I think it's Creator? But all the docs talk about Creator being an app platform, not a DB, so I'm not sure. Apologies if I'm in the wrong place.

Secondly, we're looking at how to allow our mobile end users to submit data to the database when they have no network. Yes, I know, bear with me...

We're considering a few options but one of them is an offline Progressive Web App (using a service worker) which the browser caches so they can use it even if they have no network - the app allows the user to enter the data into the web app, which would cache it. Then we would use Background Sync so that whenever the device next gets network that would trigger the app to submit the data. So basically, the user can use the app whether they have network or not, they hit 'POST' and forget about it - fire and forget.

So my question is, given that tech landscape (basically javascript), what would be the best option for connecting to the Zoho database and submitting data into it? Does Zoho provide a javascript library? I have looked but all the material about APIs is either irrelevant to my use case (e.g. form manipulation) or the material assumes so much prior knowledge that it just makes no sense to me.

Any advice much appreciated! How to progress with javascript? Or a whole better approach to achieve offline data submission?

I know Zoho will turn out Android and iOS apps but I imagine they just wrap a WebView which provides a view onto a server... which will just 404 without network?? Or is Zoho way ahead of us already?

Cheers,

Dave