What?
A quick article to take a list of options from a HTML select element and convert to a Zoho Deluge list that will eventually be used to populate a dropdown.

Why?
Because I find myself doing this quite a bit and wanted a quick way of extracting a SELECT list in someone else's form.

How?
So, let's copy the HTML select into a text editor, then escape the double-quotes, then prepend with a list declaration and append with a end of list suffix; loop through removing HTML tags and while we're at it, storing it in a list for Zoho Deluge:

What?
An article on the reasoning and steps to generate a dataset using Zoho's ANSI-SQL queries to generate the margins of each invoice in ZohoBooks.

Why?
We need to create a profits/losses dashboard in Zoho Analytics as we can't control the out-of-the-box PNL report that comes with Zoho Books. We needed a dataset that took into account "Delivery" as a separate line item on the purchase order.

I'm writing this article as it had gone through several partners before us and even Zoho themselves without a solution. This took my team the best part of two months to find a solution.

How?
Disclaimer! There may be many ways of doing this, this is just one way that we used that worked for 90% of the invoices. There are invoices that may be associated to sales orders changed after being confirmed or missing associated purchase orders altogether.

What?
I already have an article documenting Pushing a value to a datetime field in CRM but wanted another article here to remind me of the Deluge code I need to add/subtract time.

Why?
Just want to add 10 minutes to a date/time field in ZohoCRM and wanted a refresher for use in a client system. The usual error is something similar to the following:

{ "code": "INVALID_DATA", "details": { "expected_data_type": "datetime", "api_name": "Check_Date_Time" }, "message": "invalid data", "status": "error" }

How?
We're going to parse the created date and time parts as well as the timezone, add 10 minutes, re-assemble it in a format that CRM likes, and update the field:

What?
A very quick article with a snippet of code to get today's date, tomorrow's, and the day after's but it has to skip Sundays.

Why?
Wanting to create a schedule for availability over the next few days which needs to dynamically change. I am aware of the function .addBusinessDay() but that excludes Saturdays which my client still works on.

How?
We're going to get today's date, then use the .addDay(), check none of these are a Sunday, and move the next few days along:

What?
A quick article on a snippet of code which copies one subform to other subforms in the same form.

Why?
I'm creating an appointment/booking system and I want the user to be able to set entries in a subform called "Mondays" then to click a button which copies it to the remaining working days.

How?
So I have a form with 6 subforms which list staff/employee shifts from Monday to Saturday.

What?
Just a quick article if you get the above error and what to look for.

Why?
I was writing a function with perhaps too many for each loops within a for loop.

How?
The following is 1 fix for the error:

Execution Failed
UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement found   Line:(20)

I cannot guarantee that this error doesn't appear for other reasons but I will add to this article if I encounter any.

What?
This is an article to document how to schedule a call with a reminder in Zoho CRM using Zoho Deluge.

Why?
Because I find a need to document anything that takes longer than 30 minutes to figure out so I don't spend so long the next time I have to do it. The use-case scenario here is that when an appointment is made for a Lead in a booking system, we want a task or call in CRM to popup and remind us that we need to phone this Lead.

How?
It sounds straightforward: schedule a call using the GUI then write a test function to check the JSON that is being returned for API names...

What?
A quick article to demonstrate code that creates a task in CRM based on the time logged against an Event/Meeting.

Why?
As developers, we're keep account of our time and we are currently logging time in our CRM. We're meant to do 40 hours, not just for Management, but for deducting from project and support bundles.

How?
The following snippet of code is on a CRM schedule set to run every Friday at 08:00 in the morning and will create a task if time logged is too low and will remind via Popup at about 4pm (16:00).