Zoho Creator

Zoho Creator: Button on Report for Merging Multiple Selected Records

: Category: Zoho Creator; 06 December 2020; 06 December 2020; Hits: 42242; Rating:

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What?
The aim of this article is to document how you can display a Creator report to the user, that they can select (tickbox) multiple records in that report, and then have a button that loops through all the selected (ticked) records. The example below documents a report of Quotes where we want to merge all the product line items of each quote into one single quote.
Zoho Creator - Report Multiple Records Selected

Zoho Creator - Report Multiple Records Selected

Why?
I've written this article because I keep forgetting on how to do this. I have a specific order of steps on how I do this, you may find other ways but this is one that works for me.

How?
So here's an overview and then we'll go into more detail:

Create a function that accepts a form of records
Create a workflow that understands the function parameters

: Category: Zoho Creator; 17 November 2020; 17 November 2020; Hits: 50831; Rating:

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What?
This is a quick article I use to list step by step on how to set up a custom domain for a Zoho Creator customer portal. In this example, we are going to use a subdomain of a company which has the domain joellipman.com.

Why?
This took me a bit of going backwards and forwards to Zoho rather than getting my client to do this. The aim is to take up as little time as possible of the third-parties involved, plus the documentation online was in parts and requires going to several pages across the Internet. Here I have 1 page and 1 article documenting the process.

How?
I'm breaking this down into 3 stages:

Zoho Creator: Specify Custom Domain
Domain Registrar: Setup subdomain and add CNAME
Zoho Support: Get Zoho to setup SSL

: Category: Zoho Creator; 06 November 2020; 06 November 2020; Hits: 56011; Rating:

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What?
So I thought I'd write a quick article to remind me and to develop a simple notification system that will popup for any user on the submit of a form, or on the click of a button or on the click of a link on a page.

Why?
Because alert (alert task) can only be used on a load of a form, on a change of a field or on the validate process. And because info can only be displayed to an admin and even in some cases only as an additional link in the form. The example below is for use in a customer portal on the click of a report button (report workflow).

How?
This will create a popup using the built-in popup of Zoho creator and gives you the freedom to style the notification as any modal would.

: Category: Zoho Creator; 24 October 2020; 24 October 2020; Hits: 82462; Rating:

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What?
This is an article documenting how to create a Zoho Creator Widget which includes the Bootstrap and jQuery frameworks as well as other JavaScript functionality.

Why?
Quite simply that at time of print (2020-10-24), Zoho Creator does not allow you to use JavaScript anywhere in its app. HTML and CSS are mostly allowed but JavaScript automatically gets removed from any of your code.

How?
As someone who's been using Zoho services and programming in Zoho Deluge for a few years now, even I thought of Zoho Widgets as a daunting task. But after doing some, I realize this is actually very quick to do and much easier than first thought. The article below documents how to create your first widget in a MacOS environment. I aim to create a WindowsPC version of this document at some point for my colleagues. The below instructions follow a fresh install as if this is the first time this computer has created a Zoho Creator Widget.

: Category: Zoho Creator; 22 October 2020; 22 October 2020; Hits: 32873; Rating:

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What?
So this is an article documenting how to create an on/off toggle switch that hides and displays between 2 div layers in a Zoho Creator Page (so not a form or report but a page).

Why?
This is written at a time when Javascript or interactive pages that change on the fly based on a mouse event in Zoho Creator automatically get removed on Save/Update of the page. The following uses the built-in functionality of Zoho Creator and could be seen as a 'Pure CSS' feature. I'm aiming to make a list of capabilities that can be done without loading another framework considering that Zoho Creator has their own version of Bootstrap and jQuery. This is the first example I have where you would want dynamic content in a Zoho Creator page without the use of JavaScript or 'Widgets JS'.

How?
Here are some screenshots to preview what the code below will do, simply copy the code and paste into a Zoho Creator Page.

: Category: Zoho Creator; 19 October 2020; 19 October 2020; Hits: 22807; Rating:

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What?
A very quick article as I couldn't find anything on the WWW to document this error.

Why?
During a data migration, I was using a custom function to copy all the data from one app to another. The specific form was for "Leads" which contained a subform with a product line item list. If I run this code, I would get the error:

Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTION expression

Another error you may get when using the deluge script is:

LIST value cannot be assigned to 'mySubform'
-- or --
COLLECTION value cannot be assigned to 'mySubform'

expecting ZC_SUBFORM_70 expression found COLLECTION expression

How?
Quite simply the error is because the Creator Deluge syntax I was using to insert subform rows was wrong.

: Category: Zoho Creator; 21 November 2019; 21 November 2019; Hits: 28486; Rating:

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What?
Thought I'd put an article here to remind me how to make the retrieval of a record case-insensitive.

Why?
Consider that I have the following creator table:

Product_Name   Product_SKU   
-------------- -------------
MyProduct1     TEST01
Myproduct2     TEST02
myproduct3     TEST03

I'm trying to insert a record for a new product if it doesn't exist in the table but if it does exist then to simply skip adding the product.

: Category: Zoho Creator; 28 March 2019; 28 March 2019; Hits: 3720; Rating:

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What?
This is a not so quick article on how to build up a checkout cart page with Zoho Creator which directs the customer to a Shopify payment page.

Why?
I didn't find anything on the web via Google or Bing that clearly explained how to connect to Shopify API and build the checkout page without making my app into a Sales Channel.

How?
The trick is to actually ignore the Checkout API and the standard error(s) while trying to create a checkout with a storefront access token: