Zoho Developer Community Monthly Digest - November 2023
Hello everyone,
Welcome to the November edition of the Zoho Developer Community Digest. We are back with some exciting updates and noteworthy discussions within our developer community. Let's get started!
November Highlights
Zoho Developer Hangout - Episode 11
In this episode, Zoho MVP @Bhoomi Joshi and her teammate @Ram Adarasupally from Intovex LLP, shared their insights into the importance of custom portals, the integration of Zoho applications with third-party web portals, and the technology stack utilized in the underlying architecture. Additionally, they reviewed the business process of a custom portal through a demonstration focusing on banking integrations and custom API. Watch the recording of the meetup here.
Extensions 101 (Cont.)
The first five sessions of this series provided an overview of several key features within Sigma platform, such as building extensions, authentication mechanisms, authorization methods, and creating widgets. The recently concluded sessions delved into the authentication mechanism and the corresponding authorization strategy, particularly in the context of integrating Zoho CRM with other applications. Check out this playlist for all the session recordings.
Zoho Finance Developer Portal
We're excited to introduce an exclusive platform designed to enable developers and businesses alike in creating extensions for Zoho Finance applications. Read through this blog and explore all the features of the developer portal.
Upcoming Events
- 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.
- 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
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Americas & EMEA: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link - 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
Note: These conversations are confined to the Developers ZUG Cliq channel members. If you're keen on becoming a part of this space, please fill in this onboarding form to receive your invitation to join the 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 Cliq? 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
We've consolidated all the resources from the developer community learning series into a centralized hub for your convenient access. Consider bookmarking the Zoho Developer Community website to stay informed about the latest updates in the developer community.
- 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):
- Previous Session Links (Zoho Creator Studio):
- Playlist Links (Zoho Creator Studio):
- 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:
- 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
The contributions of our ZDH presenters have been instrumental in the success of the this segment. We extend our heartfelt appreciation for their efforts.
As a continuation of featuring a ZDH presenter each month, this time, we would like to introduce our fourth ZDH presenter, Jeremy Nagel. Explore this post to discover the knowledge and insights he shared with the community.
Cliq Channel Contributors
The Developers ZUG Cliq channel has consistently served as the primary hub for community members seeking technical assistance and engaging in savvy discussions. Here are our top contributors who have gone the extra mile to support and assist the Zoho Developer Community:
We want to express our sincere appreciation to all our community contributors. Your commitment, expertise, and the time you invest are invaluable to the community.
We appreciate you dedicating your time to peruse this month's digest. Make sure to follow the digest each month for the most recent updates and conversations. Stay connected and participate in the forums to be features in the upcoming month's digest. Wishing you an amazing month ahead!
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