Upcoming Events

1. Zoho Developer Hangout 13: Zoho CRM offers flexibility for businesses to tailor it precisely according to their unique requirements. However, even the best suits may need a few extra accessories. That's where Zoho Creator steps in. When integrated with Zoho CRM, it extends the platform's capabilities, allowing you to build custom applications, forms, and views, transforming them into custom tabs within the CRM interface. Think of it as the stylish pocket square that completes the look. In this session, our MVP @Damien Cregan, will provide an introduction to Deluge scripting and its role in creating integrations between Zoho Creator and Zoho CRM. He will delve into the intricacies of fetching records from Creator within CRM and vice versa, as well as creating and updating records in both platforms. Click here for registration.
   
   
2. Zoho Developer Community Bootcamp (In-Person): This has been long overdue! We're hosting our first-ever in-person developer meetup, and we're doing it right here in our home base. If you're in Chennai, you're in for a special treat. The bootcamp is designed to empower developers of all skill levels, guiding them to learn and create extensions for Zoho products. Participants also have the opportunity to potentially monetize their creations by listing them on the Zoho Marketplace. Registration and more details here.
   
   
3. Creator Learning Table Series: We designed this series to provide users with valuable insights and knowledge about Creator's capabilities in various business use cases and applications. This year, we have adopted the 12 Months 12 Industries concept. Every month, we will focus on a specific industry, illustrating its unique processes with real-time business scenarios and how to make best use of Creator for that industry. Our recent webinar on Creator for the Agriculture Industry was a success, and during the upcoming session, we'll be exploring Creator for the Real Estate Industry.
   
   Title: Creator For Real Estate Industry
   Date: March 7, 2024
   APAC & ANZ - 11 AM to 12 PM IST - Registration Link
   EMEA - 4 PM to 5 PM IST - Registration Link
   Americas - 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
   
   
4. Creator Tech Connect: Creator's tech connect series would comprise of technical sessions that provide immersive training on the key essentials and technical nuances of building a solution in Zoho Creator. This is a great opportunity for our developer community to stay informed about Creator's new feature releases, product roadmap, best practices to follow while scripting in deluge, new deluge concepts, and cloud functions. We are planning to conduct a three-month series on Custom widgets: Extension in Zoho Creator and its development process. While the first session of the series focused on developing widgets with JS API in Zoho Creator, the upcoming session will be about using Widgets from Zoho Marketplace as Extensions in Zoho Creator.
   
   Title: Developing Widgets in Zoho Creator
   Date: February 15, 2024
   APAC & ANZ: 11 AM to 12 PM IST - Registration Link
   EMEA: 4 PM to 5 PM IST - Registration Link
   Americas: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
   
   
5. Application Development Bootcamp: Application Development Bootcamp is a three-day webinar on Zoho Creator features and the application-building process. During these sessions, users get to learn how to turn their ideas into fully functional applications through live sessions and exercises. The webinars, each lasting an hour, cover sessions on ideating, structuring, developing, and managing solutions in Zoho Creator.
   
   Title: Application Development Bootcamp 1.0
   Date:  March 19, 20, and 21, 2024
   APAC & ANZ: 11 AM to 12 PM IST - Registration Link
   EMEA: 4 PM to 5 PM IST - Registration Link
   Americas: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
   
   
6. Catalyst Webinar: Turn Ideas into Modern Apps with Ease using Catalyst AppSail
   Catalyst AppSail is a highly scalable platform that allows you to quickly build apps using popular programming languages such as Java, Node.js, or Python, and your favorite frameworks like Spring, SpringBoot, Flutter, Angular, Django, Flask, and many more. Tune into our webinar to gain insights on using AppSail from our in-house industry experts. Registration and more details yet.
   

Resource Spotlight

• Google has announced its Email sender guidelines that will be effective from February 1, 2024, intending to enhance security and minimize spam on its platform. This post highlights the changes and impacts on the emails sent from our subscriber accounts in the Zoho Vertical Solutions Platform.
  
  
• Zoho Extensions: Are you looking for resources to develop Sigma extensions? Look no further; you'll find it here.
  
  
• Zoho Writer: Introducing new extensions that enable users to post to Wordpress, create notes, schedule and conduct online meetings from within Zoho Writer's document editor. You can also build custom extensions to satisfy your specific requirements. Explore more about these extensions along with a developer guide here.
  
  
• Zoho Creator Webinar: Get access to the previous Zoho Creator Session Recordings below
  
• Previous Session Links (Youtube):
• Learning Table Series: Creator for Retail
• Creator Tech Connect: Custom Widgets/Extensions in Zoho Creator - Part 1
• Playlist Links (Youtube):
• Learning Table Series
• Creator Tech Connect
• Previous Session Links (Zoho Creator Studio):
• Learning Table Series: Creator for Retail
• Creator Tech Connect: Custom Widgets/Extensions in Zoho Creator - Part 1
• Playlist Links (Zoho Creator Studio):
• Learning Table Series
• Creator Tech Connect
  
  
• Zoho CRM Developer
  
• SDKs:
  
• Ruby SDK supports CRM’s version 5 APIs, with support for new APIs. 
  
• Upgraded the C# SDK supporting v6 APIs to version 2.0.0.

  
• The Scala SDK is upgraded to support v6 APIs with support for many new APIs.
  
• Upgraded Scala SDK supporting v6 APIs to version 2.0.0.
• You can now convert a single inventory module record or schedule a job to convert them in bulk.
• Check out our Kaizen posts on some very interesting topics:

  
• Updating related records upon parent record deletion using Workflow-Triggered Deluge Functions.
  
• A Guide to API Calls in Zoho CRM Sandboxes.

  
• Customize List Views using Client Script.

  
• Data Synchronization using Bulk Read and Notification APIs.
  

Community Discussions

Zoho Developer Forum

• When @Federico needed help with dynamically adjusting a webhook to distinguish calls from production and sandbox environments, @Hugh Marshall and @Ishwarya SG offered three methods to accomplish this task in this discussion. 
• When @Scholfield's code logic didn't meet his requirements of identifying accounts in Zoho CRM without any scheduled calls or calls altogether, @Ishwarya SG stepped in with a solution, offering advice on scaling it and providing a code snippet for implementation.
  
• @Federico sought help in the community forum to add a "Ask for a quote" button to the Deals Detail page that opens a form to collect data. @Haiku technical support stepped in and suggested the best ways to implement this scenario effectively. Check out the conversation here.
• Check out the code snippet shared by @Pheranda Nongpiur to fetch values from a Subform in one module and display those values for comparison in another module in Zoho CRM. 
• Do you want to get the ID of a CRM record created using Client Script? Then this post is for you. When @Serge Piskarev was finding it difficult, @Maadhari M provided guidance with creating a record successfully and getting the ID. She also went the extra mile and suggested @Serge to use ZDK.Apps.CRM.Contacts.Models.Contacts() model, as it has more extensive features.