How to Structure Data in Zoho Creator Applications

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• Copy paste settings

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• Custom TDS on Vendor Credits via API

  Hi, We are using Zoho Books APIs for posting Bills and vendor credits. We are unable to post custom TDS amount posting vendor credits. Can you please share the API spec and Payload that need to be sent for Custom TDS for Vendor Credits.

• "Unlink" Advance from Bill without Deleting the Payment Record

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• Zoho Projects : Task should auto-update to 'In Progress' if timer started

  Namaskaram. Right now, if a Task's timer is started, the Task stays in 'Not Started' status. One has to manually update it to 'In Progress'. From a #uxdesign standpoint, it is an unnecessarily two step process to start working on a task. It would be better that, if I start the timer on a task, it should automatically change to 'In Progress' status. Crafted with ❤️ Zoho Gurus | Zoho One Practice Team @ CubeYogi Zoho Authorised Partner | 7+ Yrs | 200+ Projects | 100+ Customers

• Invoice template with sales tax totals

  Hi everyone,  I am trying to edit my invoice template so that only the total sales tax collected for my tax group shows up. Right now, under by sub total, each individual tax shows up and that takes up a lot of unnessary space, so I just want the one

• Zoho Delayed Posting & Loss of Article Thumbnails on BlueSky

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• Connection Not Secure (Certificate Mismatch) Error

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• Unable to create new finance account in Zoho Books Android app due to missing account number field.

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• Recording the Investment

  Hello, - One Investor Invested to our company, So how do we record investment which we received in our bank in the Zoho books ? - How do we record if we provide shares to the investor in the Zoho books? Thanks

• Client and Vendor portal at the same time

  We have companies that serve both as clients and vendors and they are linked. However, we have a problem giving them access to the vendor/client portal. If they accept the invitation from the client portal, when we try to invite them to the vendor portal

• Integrate Multiple ZohoBooks organization with zoho projects

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• Reassign Partially Saved Entries

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• Displaying only unread tickets in ticket view

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• Brand Studio Projects in Analytics

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• ZOHO CRM Button Integration

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• Major journey crash and not loading. Zoho Marketing Automation

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• Subtotals per Header

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• Candidate Assessments, no workflows.

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• Mail Merge in Zoho Desk

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• Workdrive backup and default storage selection

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• Zoho Booking Integration with Desk

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• Let us view and export the full price books data from CRM

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• Organization wide Account and Contacts Visibility/Sharing Capabilities?

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• Notification of Interaction Assignment

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• Countries List Global Set- Complete with Phone Country Code and Continent.

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