November Highlights

Zoho Developer Hangout - Episode 11

Extensions 101 (Cont.)

Zoho Finance Developer Portal

Upcoming Events

1. Year-end Git-Together: It's time to unwind, connect, and share. We're excited to invite you to an exclusive virtual coffee chat (BYOC - Bring Your Own Coffee!) with the developer community on December 15 at 3:30 PM AEDT & 8:00 AM PST. We want to hear your journey, the challenges you conquered, and the lessons that made you the developer that you are today. This is a no-agenda meetup curated to create a space for you to share your tech-story and aspirations for 2024. Register here for fun and inspiring conversations with your peers.
   
   
2. Creator Tech Connect Series: 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.
   
   Date: December 14, 2023
   Topic: Release Updates and Recap Series in Zoho Creator - Part 3
   APAC & ANZ: 11 AM to 12 PM IST - Registration Link
   Americas & EMEA: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
   
   
3. Zoho Writer Webinar: In this webinar, you will learn to create interactive forms or turn PDFs into fillable forms, generate documents in bulk and share them for negotiation, review, approval, or signature, and automate routine tasks with document workflow tools. Registration and more details here. 

Community Discussions

Zoho Developer Forum

• Is there a way to control the JSON response returned by the CRM function REST API? @Emranul Hassan sure has a solution, and he has elaborated it in detail with a code snippet in this conversation.
  
• Modifying field names can often create confusion with its corresponding API names. Check out the different approaches suggested by the community to @Philip when he sought help to find API name of a field.
  
• Here's a solution from @Anant Garg for invalid_client error while fetching access token from grant token.
  
• This is how @Pheranda Nongpiur helped @Jin Yeh with the functions to use when trying to validate the account status as "Success" or "Inactive" when the opportunity's stage changes to "Closed Won" or "Closed Lost."
  
• Check out this solution suggested by @Sunderjan Siddharth for implementing a counter on CRM records to monitor the frequency of actions taken on a record.
  
• Go through the solution suggested by our MVP @Bhoomi Joshi for attaching a file to a field in CRM.
  

Developers ZUG Cliq Channel

• Follow the suggestions by @Mike Simpson and @Steve Slothouber to download all records from a View in CRM.
  
• Check this thread to understand the solutions provided by @Greg Belnap and @Maureen to @LaVerne Cox about her use case for triggering email to contacts in her custom module.
  
• Here's an interesting conversation regarding converting language when adding a lead to your CRM from an external website. The focus was on translating the date field into French, and various workarounds were​ suggested. For more details on this topic, check out the link, especially if you're working on a similar task.
  
• Wondering how to retrieve messages from a specific time and a way to forward messages on Cli​q? Then this thread is for you.
  
• If you also faced the bug while using an invokeurl task to send_mail, then this is the chat you should take a look at and participate too. The solution is to set the org_email to true. 

Resource Spotlight

• Zoho Cliq for Developers 101: Get an overview of the tools available in the Cliq Developer Platform and their optimal use for automating daily tasks, integrating Cliq with other apps, and creating custom solutions for your business operations. Be sure not to overlook the fascinating use cases implemented by the Zoho Cliq team for our staff.
  
  
• Zoho Creator Webinar: Get access to the previous Zoho Creator Session Recordings below:
  
• Previous Session Links (Youtube):
  
• Learning Table Series: Creator for Hospitality
  
• Creator Tech Connect: Zoho Creator Release Updates - Part 1
  
• Creator Tech Connect: Zoho Creator Release Updates - Part 2
• Playlist Links (Youtube):
  
• Learning Table Series
  
• Creator Tech Connect
  
• Previous Session Links (Zoho Creator Studio):
  
• Learning Table Series: Creator for Hospitality
  
• Creator Tech Connect: Zoho Creator Release Updates - Part 1
  
• Creator Tech Connect: Zoho Creator Release Updates - Part 2
  
• Playlist Links (Zoho Creator Studio):
• Learning Table Series
  
• Creator Tech Connect
  
  
• Building Extensions for Zoho Projects #3: In this post, learn how to publish and install an extension, and share a private extension with a user.
  
  
• Kaizen: This series aims to benefit developers to gain insights into the various developer tools available in CRM.
  
• Kaizen #110: Learn all about locking records through APIs.
  
• Kaizen #111: Learn how to set default values for fields based on different layouts using Client Script.
  
• Kaizen #112: Learn how to raise Signals in Zoho CRM through functions.
  
• Kaizen #113: Learn how to raise Signals in Zoho CRM using Zoho Flow.
  
  
• Zoho CRM Developer:
  
• We have released the Data Model feature that helps you understand and visualize the overall structure of your CRM data, and identify the relationships between different entities.
  
• We have updated our Services APIs where you can create and update “Not in Use “services outside business hours/days.
  
• You can now bulk import data to modules that have children like subforms, multi-select lookup, and multi-user lookup fields in a single job. Refer to this doc for more details.
  
• Circuits in Zoho CRM is now available to all users in the US, EU, and IN DCs(all editions except Zoho One). Check out this announcement for more details.
  
• We have increased the maximum available daily credits for the Enterprise and Professional editions of Zoho CRM. Refer to this announcement to know more.
  
• SDK updates:
  
• Java SDK using V5 APIs is updated to version 5.0.0.
  
• New APIs are included in C# SDK supporting V5 APIs.
  
• The same SDK is updated to version 2.0.0.
  
• Upgraded TypeScript SDK supporting v5 APIs to version 2.0.0
  
  
• Zoho Creator: This post contains the latest updates and developments in Zoho Creator.
  
  
• Deluge: This post features the highlights from the past month.
  
  
• Zoho Writer: Discover the upcoming improvements to the Merge and Store API, including the introduction of v2 and the phase-out of v1.

Community Spotlight

ZDH Speakers

Cliq Channel Contributors