What?
A quick article on how I resolved this error and how the online forums and documentation did not.

Why?
I don't often do this to create a Creator record but I'm going to use the shortcode function zoho.creator.createRecord() and wanted to update the first name of a name field but I was getting the following error:

{ "code": 2945, "description": "EXTRA_KEY_FOUND_IN_JSON" }

How?
So the quick answer is to build a nested map in your request instead of using the Creator/JavaScript period/dot character...

What?
This is an article to document how we created a button off a Bill record in ZohoBooks which generates a text file to be sent to a bank and downloads it to the staff member's workstation.

Why?
Why is this a challenge? The file contains bank details and should not be stored anywhere. Generating a text or CSV file and then having it emailed to anyone is an easy task but here we cannot have that file sat on someone's mailbox. It must be downloaded (as in browser downloads it to the computer immediately) and then removed from wherever it was downloaded from...  All within ZohoBooks without using any other apps or software.

How?
Here's how to use it:

• Staff member clicks on button
• File downloads to their workstation

Here's what's happening in the background:

• File is generated
• FIle is attached to the last record of the source data
• File identifying number is returned from being attached
• File is opened in a new tab/window to trigger downloading.
• File is deleted from attachments based on its identifying number (allows other attachments to remain intact)

What?
This is an article with a snippet of code demonstrating how to manage a subform using a Zoho CRM Client Script.

Why?
A client wanted an automation on-the-fly that when selecting a specific value in a field, a row would be added to a subform contained herein.

How?
Well I won't go in to detail on how to add a client script, this article is just to show the snippet of code used in the client script which will manage a subform.

What?
This is an article to serve as a guide in terms of styling a radio group into a group of Tabs. This is only a guide or reference which was applied for one client but would need adapting to match the colors or style the next client wants.

Why?
The scenario is that my client has quite a long Creator form and instead of scrolling down while entering data, they would prefer if they could have tabs along the top to display each section.

How?
The way we do this is by applying our own stylesheet and overriding certain CSS elements that the vanilla or out-of-the-box Zoho Creator ones provide.

What?
This is an article to document how I downloaded an image held in a Zoho Creator form, and sent it to an API wanting the publicly accessible link or URL of the image.

Why?
I've got some other articles on handling images in Zoho Creator (see "Sources" below), the most relevant one being my article Zoho Deluge: Get Image Uploaded in Creator Form which has one method of getting a public link.

My use-case scenario here is that while I could upload the link from Creator to eBay's Picture Services successfully, Shopify would not accept any links I gave it. Why not use the links that eBay returns? Well eBay returns URLs to images that have been resized to 400x400 (even with tweak to return 800x800). I wanted a way to upload my image directly to Shopify in 3024x3024 resolution (or the size that the client wants: iPhone res). I then found that Shopify does accept a Base64Encoded version of the image and the below is how I achieved this.

How?
First-off, let me list the various formats that Zoho Creator says that public link exists.

What?
This is a very quick article on sending an email with Deluge which needs a dynamic number of files attached to it.

Why?
This came up during a call with another developer and it occurred to me that perhaps this isn't clearly documented. But there are tips found across the web just not specifically addressing this.

How?
Here is the code for a test function which downloads 2 files from a public domain, no user wall. The key here which the official documentation is missing is the .setParamName() but for those who have spent time to find this function, they'll already know this.

What?
There are other sources on the web which show you how to deduplicate a contact but usually involve entering a customer name or other key to check if there are already records in the system with that key. I can't sit there entering one customer at a time. Even a loop would hit a statement execution limit.

Why?
My use-case is that I need this done over a dataset of 20k+ contact records and that's only half of the production system's contacts. I needed a quick bit of code to find any duplicates, all within the Zoho Creator app using Zoho Deluge and avoiding the use of any third-party APIs.

How?
My team of developers actually helped me solve this one as I was slowly dispairing...

What?
A quick article on determining the week number of the year if your week starts on a Monday and not a Sunday.

Why?
I think it's the US system which generally says that a week starts on a Sunday but in the United Kingdom, the week generally starts on a Monday. So let's say there's a schedule that has to be run weekly and include all the orders of a specific week...

Just to confuse everyone in the world, the day index for a Sunday is 7 (ie. myDate.toString("u") returns 7) and the week commences on a Sunday (ie. myDate.toStartOfWeek("EEEE") returns Sunday). In other words, the day counting starts at 7, followed by 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on...

How?
The logic behind this would be to take the date of the order, check if the order date is a Sunday, subtract a day, and return the week number: