Community Digest - September 2021
Announcements
- Zoho Marketplace houses more than 500 Zoho CRM plug and play extensions. Here is a list of 19 more Zoho CRM extensions released in the month of August 2021
Community Discussions
- A round of applause to Kevin Flynn, our Zoho Community MVP for sharing a detailed workaround to change the label display name of a system defined field
- Extension Pointers for Integrating Zoho CRM with Zoho products #3: Keep track of your Zoho Desk tickets from within Zoho CRM
- Integrate Google Drive with Zoho CRM custom modules
- Populate text fields using fetched subform values in deals using deluge scripts
- Michael Trow, Zoho Community MVP, suggests ways to check activities in a graph form
- Easily update fields based on a field input from other modules
- Mark Scheffel - Cloudtech shares a comprehensive solution on moving records from custom modules to contacts
Meetup Snippets
Meetup Snippets is a brand new segment showcasing interesting and useful snippets of information from our Zoho User Group (ZUG) meetups. Hop over to the latest post in this series:
- Meetup Snippets #01 - Route Management in Zoho CRM by Scott Pickel
- Meetup Snippets #02 - 'How to learn from Zoho Community' by Hannah Eversole
Small Business Heroes
'Small Business Heroes' is a podcast series focuses on the stories of small business owners on how they leveraged the power of Zoho CRM to scale their businesses. Listen to the podcast and explore different analogies for a robust Zoho CRM
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