Add and Configure Car Inspection Extension on Your Zoho Creator Page
Requirement
Include a car Inspection extension in your Zoho Creator application to assist in inspection and identification of the damaged components of a car.
Use Case
Imagine a car manufacturing industry that uses Zoho Creator application for various quality assurance related activities, such as Manufacturing Audit, Inspection, SPC, FMEA and so on. By adding the car inspection extension into their application, they can efficiently perform pre-delivery inspections of vehicles, ensuring that overall quality standards are met before handing them over to customers.
Pre-requisites
Installing the Car Inspection Extension for Zoho Creator
- Search for and install the Car Inspection Extension for Zoho Creator from Zoho Marketplace. Learn how to Install and Manage Extensions.
Alternatively, you can also install Car Inspection Extension for Zoho Creator directly from Zoho Creator. Navigate to the Operations section > Application > Marketplace > Extensions and install it.
Steps to Follow
- Create a form with an subform with the following details to store the vehicle inspection information.
Form Name
Form Link Name
Field Type
Field Name
Field Link Name
Car Inspection
Car_Inspection
Date
Date of Inspection
Date_of_Inspection
Single_Line
Model
Model
Number
Identification Number
Identification_Number
Subform
Single Line
Single Line
Defects
Defective Part
Remarks
Defects
Defective_Part
Remarks
- Navigate to the form properties and rename the 'Submit' button to 'Inspect'.
- Create a page named 'Inspection' and drag and drop the 'Car Inspection Extension' listed under the Installed category under the Widgets section in the left pane.
- Navigate to the page variables and add the following page variables to include required variables for the extension.
Variable
Data Type
reportName
TEXT
recordID
TEXT
subFormLinkName
TEXT
damagedPartFieldLinkName
TEXT
remarksFieldLinkName
TEXT
redirectURL
TEXT
- Configure the Page Script by adding the following script to the editor to supply data to the extension's parameters.
- input.reportName = "All_Car_Inspection"; // Report link name of the 'Car Inspection' form's report.
- input.subFormLinkName = "Defects"; // Field link name of the 'Defects' subform in the 'Car Inspection' form.
- input.damagedPartFieldLinkName = "Defective_Part"; // Field link name of the 'Defective Part' field in the 'Defects' Subform of 'Car Inspection' form.
- input.remarksFieldLinkName = "Remarks"; // Field link name of the 'Remarks' field in the 'Defects' Subform of 'Car Inspection' form.
- input.redirectURL="https://creatorapp.zoho.com" + zoho.appuri + "#Form:Car_Inspection";
- Create a workflow to execute on the successful submission of the Car Inspection form, then select the Record Event as Created. Name the workflow 'Open Extension' and click Create Workflow. This workflow will open the 'Inspection' page with car inspection extension.
- Click Add New Action > Deluge Script and add the following code to the Deluge editor.
- openUrl("#Page:Inspection?recordID="+input.ID, "same window");
- Create another workflow by selecting the Record Event as Created and Form Event as Field Rules. Name the workflow 'Hide Defects' and click Create Workflow. This workflow will hide the 'Defects' subform, as the values for this subform will be fetched from the extension's input.
- Click Add New Action > Hide fields and select 'Defects' Field from the dropdown.
Note: The 'Defects' field must be added in the quick view and detailed view layouts of All Car Inspections report of the Car Inspection form for viewing the inspection details from the report.See How It Works