Hi everyone. I see many posts about scripting (deluge) issues and automation issues. At our business, we have developed many simple code snippets which I would like to share with you in the hopes that it helps you automate your businesses more to save you time and money.

But first, a bug bear of mine is variable naming convention. When we started, we struggled with a naming convention in our functions which was based on the horrible Zoho default naming convention.... "response" anyone? We picked up these tips from Joel Lipmann(?) who I have no affiliation with.

We have 5 major categories of variables/objects in Deluge 

Records

Maps
Lists

Collections

Variables

The naming convention we use is "x_name" where "x" is the first letter of the category. i.e

r_contact would be a Contact Record
m_contact would be a Map for a contact record

l_contacts would be a list of contacts

c_contacts would be a collection of contact records (you can also use l_contacts for a collection unless you're using lists and collections in the same function)

v_error would be a variable for an error message

You see the pattern? In this way, if you need to get information from a record, you type "r" and only the record objects come up in the list pop-up

It also makes loops easier to declare and read. i.e instead of 

1. for each ele in contacts
   
2. {
   
3. }

it would read

Hope this helps! This naming convention only has a minor effect on simple scripts, but when you start dealing with multiple records, multiple lists and when your scripts get up into the hundreds of lines or more, a good naming convention makes it much easier to code and debug.