Zoho Sprints developer platform features and capabilities
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We're thrilled to connect with you in another post in our Building extensions series. We've explored concepts in building, testing, publishing, and sharing extensions for Zoho Sprints. If you missed any of this, take a look at our other posts.
In this post, we'll look at an overview of the key features available in the Zoho Sprints developer platform and how they help you build efficient extensions.
Fundamental capabilities
- Seamless integration between apps: Connections
- Customized user interface: Widget
- Pop-up and dialog boxes: Modal box
- Data management: Data storage
- Managing logical and event-related functionalities: Functions and triggers
Let's take a quick look at each of these capabilities and the supporting features available in the developer platform.
Seamless integration between applications through Connections
A tight integration between applications lets you seamlessly transfer and synchronize data. This reduces the need to switch and handle data between two apps; instead, you can manage it all from a single app using the Connections feature in the developer platform.
Connections let you establish a seamless integration and act as a bridge for securely transferring data between applications.
Customized user interfaces through Widgets
Simplified user interfaces help end users interact with your app effortlessly. Creating a custom user interface gives you the flexibility you need to meet your requirements, such as retrieving input from users or performing logic at the click of a button.
Widgets in the developer platform make it easy to create these customized user interfaces. Learn more about widgets and their supported locations here.
Creating pop-up or dialog boxes through modal boxes
In general, most apps involve scenarios that require data being passed from one window to another to execute an activity or display an alert.
Modal boxes help you create this dialog box, which can be invoked from an existing widget. A modal box is a kind of widget: it's a user interface that displays on top of another widget and requires some action to be performed before returning to the original widget. This allows you to manage scenarios that need the end user to complete a task before proceeding. You can read more about modal boxes in our documentation.
Storing and retrieving data using data storage
Storing data lets you retrieve it whenever you need it to perform extension functionalities.
This can be achieved using the data storage feature. It lets you store data against Zoho Sprints modules so you can access it and use it across the extension. Check out the supported modules for data storage.
Managing logical and event-related functionalities using functions and triggers
An app involves multiple logical functionalities that need to be handled during a defined event or time in order to function smoothly.
Implementing logical functionalities can be handled using the functions feature in the platform. If you want to execute a function when a specific event occurs, you can use triggers. Explore more on functions and triggers.
In this post, we've gone over the key components in the Zoho Sprints developer platform. In the upcoming posts, we'll explore each of these features in detail with a simple example. Keep following this space for more updates!
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