Result of Voting for Cycle 1 of Community Driven Feature
Congratulations John (niskypto) on having one of your suggestions ... G. niskypto - iCal Feed - http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community?ftid=2266000000243190 ... voted as the Community's choice for the first Community Driven Feature to be presented to the ZOHO Creator Team for development by a Resource dedicated to this channel. Out of the 24 people who cast their votes, 9 voted for this suggestion as their 1st choice ... with a further 4 as their 2nd choice and 2 as their 3rd choice ... indicating
Time to Vote (Community Driven Feature - Cycle #1)
Apologies for the delay ... but here are the 13 submissions for the first Community Driven Feature to be developed by the ZOHO Creator Team. A. binarysprinter - OpenUrl Ajax Popup w AutoClose [Similar to the popup while clicking Add Record in a View] - http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community?ftid=2266000000253016 B. binarysprinter - Star Rating - New Field Type - http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community?ftid=2266000000253007 C. binarysprinter - Multi-dimensional Lists - http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community?ftid=2266000000242437
Supporting Application ...
With voting deadline for the first cycle just round the corner ... its time to start defining, designing and developing the Application to support the selection of future cycles of the Community Driven Features initiative. I'll leave the two voulnteers ... John (niskypto) and Deepa (deepa7476) to consult each other and come up with a division of labour in the development of this ZOHO creator Application. But first, I'd like to make some suggestions for the scope and design of this Application. Here
Deadlines for Suggestions/Discussions and Voting re: Cycle #1
Please note that new submissions for Cycle #1 of the Community Driven Feature will not be considered after Wednesday May/6 2009 (11:59 P.M. PST). Also, I am hoping to open up the current submissions for Voting by the Community on Monday May/11 ... and close voting on Wednesday May/13 (11:59 P.M. PST). Gaev
Eye Candy for List Views ...
Although I would like the first Community Driven Feature to be the development of the "ReplaceAll built-in Function" that I suggested here ... http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community?ftid=2266000000242421 ... for those of you that feel there is insufficient benefit to be derived from being able to transform template Emails and HTML Views with speed and ease ... I suggest another feature here for your consideration. This suggestion is actually a collection "eye candy" improvements relating to the
Voting Procedure for Cycle #1
Here, I would like to make suggestions and get input from the community about the process of Voting for the very first Cycle of the Community Driven Feature. While we can refine this process in subsequent cycles ... after learning from the experience with the first cycle ... I suggest the following simple process ... a) The voting be conducted openly and transparently. b) We deploy this forum for the community to vote their preferences ... I will start a new topic for this purpose ... community members
iCal Feed
Suggestion: iCal Feed Purpose: Enable an application to push event-oriented data to an external calendar (like Google calendar) via the iCal standard. Motivation: The built-in calendar view is simplistic and has many limitations compared to other calendar applications. Building a custom html view may be possible, but would entail large complexities. While there may eventually be programmatic connectivity between Zoho Calendar and Creator, providing an iCal feed would be a logical first step AND significantly
PDF of HTML view
Hi, HTML views are primarily used as dynamic reports, passing some unique ID as paramter. It only makes sense to have the "report" as pdf file that can be saved ( & emailed if need be) Do you guys think, ZC users could use this ???
Decision Box Display 'Alias' True = 'custom msg' False = 'custom msg'
Hi, Here is a small but extremely useful feature. Decision boxes are extremely useful in terms of simplicity and elegance of input: Check or Uncheck As against individual radio buttons, with Yes or No or XXXXXX or __ But on the Views we see values such as True or False. The text is Black and it doesn't help to distinguish between both at a glance, as we don't have colour variations for different values, and as Gaev has pointed out so many times, each lacking
Opening Remarks from the Community Representative ...
Thank you Charles for inviting me to be the Community Representative. I am happy to quarter back this process and deliver the User Community's collective decision regarding the first feature to be developed. As I am charting new territory here ... I don't know of any other vendors offering this kind of formal channel for their User Community ... so I suspect we will not get it all right the very first time. Hence my approach is to invite all users to not only make their suggestions for Candidate
Built-in Function ReplaceAll(searchString,ReplacementString)
Following my own suggested guidelines for proposing a Community Feature for the very first cycle, I suggest that ZOHO Creator provide a new built-in String Function that would ... Replace all Occurences of a specified SubString within a specified String (field or variable) with another specified SubString ... for example ... sourceVariable = "Jack and Jill went to Jack's place in the city";
searchString = "Jack";
replacementString = "Bill"
resultVariable = sourceVariable.ReplaceAll(searchString,replacementString);
Query functionality in list view
Hi, I feel one feature that can significantly enhance user-friendliness of ZC is some kind of query functionality (run-time) in the list view. Presently we have the search functioanlity. But it does not support search based on boolean logic (for example status of project being "Completed" OR "Nearing Completion", start date being BETWEEN 01-April-2008 and 31-March-2009, etc.) Using custom filters do not give so much freedom to user as in the case where he/she enters criteria values to run the
Multi-dimensional Lists
Hi, I had given a 'green-light' for Gaev's suggestion for 'search & replace' functionality to be our next community-driven feature. But in the event that the function might be anything less powerful than Regex itself, or take 'a considerable amount of dev time' to implement, which any good function normally would, I propose this feature instead: Multi-dimensional lists with sort functionality. Currently we can have a List Animals: lion fox bear gazelle fish BUT: I would like to be able to have List
Welcome to the Community Driven Features Section
Welcome to the Community Driven Features section of the Zoho Creator forum. This section has been setup for the express purpose of facilitating the newly announced "Community Feature" of Zoho Creator to enable the User Community to have a say in the new features to be delivered by us.(Zoho Creator Development Team). The rules of engagement are simple; Users suggest, discuss the relative merits and vote for new features that would benefit the wider Zoho Creator User Community. The most popular