Upcoming updates - May-June, 2020

Upcoming updates - May-June, 2020

Hello App Creators,

We'll be releasing the following features in the next 2-3 weeks:
  • API v2
  • Mobile SDK
  • Federated login support for customer portal
  • Lookup creation UI revamp
  • Enhanced offline capabilities
  • Support for duplicating permission sets
  • Satellite and street views in map reports
The following features from our previous posts:
  • Freezing subform headers
  • Beta property that brings improvements for printing and exporting records as PDFs
Upcoming online training:
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API v2

Availability : All Creator accounts

We're ready with our v2 APIs, which bring the following improvements:
  • OAuth-based authentication, which is more secure than authtokens
  • Support for the PATCH, PUT, and DELETE methods
  • Better structuring of the API request: you can add form data to the request’s body in the JSON format
  • Better error handling resulting from a more insightful set of error codes and messages
  • Better performance in comparison to the current version (v1)
  • No keyword restrictions
List of APIs:
  • Data APIs : Add Records, Get Record - Detail View, Get Records - Quick View, Update Record by ID, Update Records, Delete Record by ID, Delete Records
  • File APIs : Upload File, Download File, Download File from Subform
  • Meta APIs : Get Fields, Get Forms, Get Reports, Get Pages, Get Sections, Get Applications, Get Applications by Workspace
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Mobile SDK

Availability : Premium and above subscriptions from our latest pricing

The beta phase of our Android and iOS SDKs is about to culminate and we're geared to roll them out. We'll post about this soon.

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Federated login support for customer portal

Availability : Accounts using the New UI or Creator 5

You'll be able to delegate customer authentication to Google and Facebook:


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Lookup creation UI revamp

Applicable to : Creator 5

We're updating the UI you see while adding a lookup field to your form.

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Enhanced offline capabilities

Applicable to : Zoho Creator iOS and Android apps
Availability : All Creator accounts whose subscription allows offline access

We're introducing the Offline Components screen, which will enable your users to manage the offline availability of the forms and reports.
  • End users will have to download the forms and reports that they want to access offline. As usual, forms that require a connection to the server (to execute the Deluge script associated with its On Load and On User Input events) will not be available offline.
  • End users can sync the offline forms and reports manually. When enabled, the auto sync will happen every 24 hours from the component's last synced time.


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Support for duplicating permission sets

Applicable to : Creator 5

Yes! You'll soon be able to duplicate both user and customer permission sets!

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Satellite and street views in map reports

Applicable to: Creator 5

With this update, your application's end users will be able to:
  • Switch to street view while picking an address, and
  • Switch to the street and satellite views while accessing map reports


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Let us know what you think about these updates in the comments below!

Best,
Lakshman | Zoho Creator Team


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