Custom fields checkboxes are not boolean in Zoho Books

Custom fields checkboxes are not boolean in Zoho Books

Hello all,

Today I discovered a very strange and curious thing I think it is worthy to be shared with all developers: in Zoho Books, checkboxes created as a custom field dont return a boolean value, they return true/false but as a string. 

I was trying to avoid certain sales orders when making invoices and we created a checkbox to mark those sales orders and avoid them. This is a debug code I tried:

  2. urllista = "https://books.zoho.eu/api/v3/salesorders/?organization_id=" + organizationID + "&salesorder_ids=" + salesorderID;
  3. lista = invokeurl
  4. [
  5. url :urllista
  6. type :GET
  7. connection:"xxx"
  8. ];
  9. info lista;
  10. lista_ordenes = lista.get("salesorders").toList();
  11. for each  findOrder in lista_ordenes
  12. {
  13. pedido_amazon = findOrder.get("cf_pedido_amazon");
  14. info pedido_amazon;
  15. }
  16. if(pedido_amazon != true)
  17. {
  18. info "No es Pedido de Amazon";
  19. }
The last condition was not working at all and the only way I had it working was making the condition with "true" instead of the boolean value true 

Is this a normal behaviour?  Maybe the toList() function takes off the values? Does anyone know something about this?