Zoho Developer Community Monthly Digest – May 2025
Hello everyone,
Welcome to this month’s Zoho Developer Community Digest! From fresh product insights to hands-on tech sessions and standout community threads, there's plenty here to keep your ideas flowing and your skills sharp. Be sure to explore our updated resource hub for even more learning. Grab your coffee and dive into the latest from the Zoho developer community!
The developer community chat room is shifting from Zoho Cliq to a new space on Zoho CommunitySpaces, and it comes with a iOS and Android mobile apps! Or sign up here and use the web version. (Using Zoho credentials? Just sign in—no need to fill the form.)
Why the change? This new space brings all Zoho users together, lets you follow threads and people, sends personalized notifications, and has a much smoother experience overall. We’ve been envisioning this for a while, so we’re thrilled it’s live.
Check out these videos to get started!
Upcoming Events
Extensions 101
Title: Zoho Books – Custom Actions
Date: Jun 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM IST & 8:00 PM IST – Registration link
Date: Jun 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM IST & 8:00 PM IST – Registration link
This series aims to guide developers through the process of building extensions for various Zoho products using the Zoho Developer platform, Sigma. Our previous sessions in this series covered extension development for multiple Zoho products and highlighted the platform's key capabilities for developing efficient extensions. Register for the upcoming sessions, where we'll delve deep into developing extensions for Zoho products like CRM, Books, and Desk.
Zoho Community Developer Bootcamps 2025 – India
We're bringing two sets of in-person developer bootcamps across 7 cities in India—one for Catalyst by Zoho, and another for building Extensions using the Sigma platform! We're super excited to meet you in person... and some of you, once again!
Creator Tech Connect:
Title: Building Data Relationships using Subforms in Zoho Creator
Date: June 12, 2025
APAC & ANZ: 11 AM to 12 PM IST - Registration Link
EMEA: 4 PM to 5 PM IST - Registration Link
Americas: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
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. In our previous session, we discussed about lookup fields in Zoho Creator. In the upcoming session, we will explore building data relationships using Subforms in Zoho Creator.
Zoho Developer Hangout – Episode 23
Topic: Custom Logs – A Developer’s Ally in Zohosphere
Date: Jun 17, 2025
How do you debug when a client says, “I clicked something… and now it’s not working”, but can’t explain what happened? In this session, Deepa, a self-taught Zoho developer and homepreneur, will walk you through how she builds custom logs inside client accounts to capture real-time activity, make issues easier to trace, and reduce stress. This session is perfect for any developer working in client automations or eager to learn best practices while coding.
Zoho CRM APIs
Title: Part 7 – OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0
Date: Jun 19, 2025
Time: 10 AM & 9 PM IST – Registration link
Date: Jun 19, 2025
Time: 10 AM & 9 PM IST – Registration link
Zoho CRM now provides an official OpenAPI 3.0 specification for its REST APIs, designed for developers and solution architects. In this session, you’ll learn how to instantly generate client SDKs in multiple programming languages, test APIs visually through Swagger UI, maintain consistent integrations with auto-generated, versioned requests and responses, and explore modules, operations, request/response formats, and error codes — all in a single, machine-readable file.
Zoho CRM Developer Series – Queries
Date: June 26, 2025
Time: 10 AM IST & 9 PM IST – Registration link
In this session, you'll learn how to create a query in CRM and use variables, serialization and schema management, along with a use case demo.
Building AI-powered, low-code apps with Zoho Creator
Title: CoCreator – Generative AI-Assisted Application Development
Date: July 3, 2025 – Registration link
Learn how Zoho Creator’s AI-powered assistant, CoCreator (powered by Zia), helps you build apps, automate workflows, and optimize code rapidly—so you can focus on creating impactful business solutions faster.
Learning Table Series
Title: Zoho Creator for Logistics Management
Date: July 3, 2025
APAC & ANZ: 11 AM to 12 PM IST - Registration Link
EMEA: 4 PM to 5 PM IST - Registration Link
Americas: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
Americas: 9 PM to 10 PM IST - Registration Link
We designed this series to provide users with valuable insights and knowledge about Creator's capabilities in various business use cases and applications. This year as well, we have adopted the 12 Months 12 Industries concept. Every month, we will focus on a specific industry, illustrating its unique processes with real-time business scenarios and how to make best use of Creator for that industry. Our recent webinar on Creator for visitor management was a success, and during the upcoming session we'll be exploring Creator for Logistics Management.
Resource Spotlight
We've consolidated all the resources from the developer community learning series into a centralized hub for your convenient access. Consider bookmarking our Zoho Developer Community website to stay informed about the latest updates in the developer community.
- Zoho CRM Developer Updates
- Client Script Support For Custom Buttons: Client Scripts now allow you to trigger validations and custom logic on the click of a custom button, offering enhanced flexibility and control over user interactions.
- Queries in Custom Related Lists: Power your custom related lists to display additional data, context-specific information alongside your CRM records, whether it’s from another module, a third-party service, or a custom integration, using Queries in Zoho CRM.
- Kaizen Posts
- Kaizen 188 - Building a Timer and Worklog Widget - Part 2
- Kaizen 189 - Manipulating Multi-Module Lookup Field using Zoho CRM APIs
- Kaizen 190 - Queries in Custom Related Lists
- Kaizen 191 - Implementing "Login with Zoho" using Python SDK
- Kaizen 192 - Implementing Custom Token Persistence in Python SDK
- AI-Powered Automation using Zoho Deluge and Gemini: The Deluge Learning Series offers in-depth sessions focused on Deluge scripting, integration techniques, and real-world use cases. Each session highlights a curated set of built-in functions and demonstrates how they can be effectively applied across Zoho products such as Zoho Creator, Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, and more.
- Zoho ZeptoMail: Dive into the world of sandbox testing with Zoho ZeptoMail. This blog guides developers on creating Mail Agents in sandbox mode, offering a safe environment to test and refine email functionalities before going live. A must-read for developers looking to enhance their email testing strategies.
- Zoho Recruit: Explore how AI is transforming digital workspaces with Zoho Recruit. This blog delves into the integration of AI to streamline recruitment processes, making it an essential read for developers interested in AI-driven solutions in HR tech.
- Zoho Sprints: Discover the new features of Zoho Sprints Mobile 2.0 that enhance project management on the go. This blog is perfect for developers seeking to optimize their project management tools with mobile capabilities.
- Zoho Cliq: Unleash the power of design tool extensions in Zoho Cliq. This guide is tailored for developers and designers looking to integrate Figma, Lucidchart, and Miro into their workflow, enhancing collaboration and creativity.
- Zoho Mail: Understand the critical role of email headers and their compliance with RFC standards. This blog is essential for developers focused on ensuring email deliverability and security, providing insights into best practices for email header configuration.
- Zoho Marketplace: Learn how to master bot filtering and comply with Apple MPP. This technical guide is crucial for developers aiming to optimize email marketing strategies and improve engagement metrics by filtering out non-human interactions.
Community Discussions
Zoho Developer Forum
- A developer wanted to extract just the first word from a name like “David Beckham” in Deluge. Some suggested using getPrefix, others went the list-splitting route. The beauty? Each approach worked—with its own twist. What made one method stand out more than the others? The community had thoughts…
- Looking for clarity on field types and criteria for zoho.cr.searchRecords, @Charles-Adrien noticed the official docs left out quite a bit. @Anonymous User quickly filled the gap, and fellow devs jumped in with practical insights—especially around API version differences. One reply, in particular, offered a lightbulb moment...
- @Jesus needed to update a date field from the 'Cargo' module to the 'Deals' module in Zoho CRM. With step-by-step help from @Ishwarya SG, a fix from our MVP @Nik, and a surprise twist involving Rollup fields for a similar case, this thread became a great showcase of layered problem-solving. But it’s the final solution that made many devs stop and take notes...
@Michele's workflow was being... stubborn. One rule updated a field, but the next rule didn’t even blink. After some helpful nudges from @Anonymous User and a sharp fix from MVP Nik, the floodgates opened—more devs, more automation drama, and a treasure chest of workarounds. The final fix was so simple, it almost felt like the CRM was just being petty.
Developers ZUG Conversations
- Copy-Paste saves time, but it also makes one look like a caveperson, when using it to create the same type of document over and over. That's where dynamic templates come in. @Bassel needed help configuring them and help didn't take long to arrive!
- While working with APIs, has it seemed like you're doing everything right, but something just doesn't make click? That's exactly what happened with @Alex. While our community members tried their best to help, the solution was in the documentation all along!
- In this day and age, data is, for sure, the new oil. Cross-checking someone's privileges before granting them access to data is critical. That's what @Ithiel wanted to achieve through Deluge in Zoho Creator. The solution turned out to be quite simple and effective too!
- When you have access to an ever-growing ecosystem of powerful apps and tools, why would you want to use 3 or 4 different systems? Or in @Buddy's case, 9? Trying to make the whole process efficient, he turned to our community for suggestions, and as always, they didn't disappoint with being generous with their expertise.
- Even though all roads lead to Rome, some definitely offer a much smoother ride. @Olivier needed help with parsing a html string, and even though he found a way to do it himself, our community members chipped it with simpler solutions, one of those even being a secret hidden one!
Community Spotlight
Zoho Developer Hangout
As a continuation of featuring a ZDH presenter each month, this time, we are delighted to introduce and appreciate the 19th episode presenter @Christopher Mowers. Explore this post to discover the knowledge and insights he shared with the community.
Cliq Contributors
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.
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