Experience sharing - creating quick prototypes to align understanding

Experience sharing - creating quick prototypes to align understanding

Curious to hear from developers in this community - How do you create a prototype of Zoho CRM customised changes quickly with little coding so that you can validate your idea and requirements with stakeholders?

The latest method I have found still requires a lot of development work for me to create the dynamic layout behaviour using Client Script and automation to show data updates in other modules. For this particular custom module layout, I've reached the limits of 25 actions in Layout Rules, so had to resort to using Client Script to get the dynamic behaviour for some of the fields. It's a pain to do this, given that I need to consider the behaviour for 4 Client Script triggers ("Create", "Edit", "Details" and "Clone").

What I'm doing now:
1. Create two sandboxes: one as a backup of the current live/PROD CRM config and data. Another version is my DEV env.

2. In the DEV sandbox, I am making changes to the layout, layout rules, Deluge functions, client scripts and Workflow automations. 

3. Share access to the DEV sandbox with selected stakeholders to have them test.

4. When the expected behaviour is confirmed, deploy the DEV sandbox changes to PROD/live environment. When there are many changes, I feel nervous about pushing the button to let the system do this deployment work... 😬




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