Zoho Deluge: Determine if Daylight Savings are in effecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-if-daylight-savings-are-in-effect.html

03 July 2023 What? If you're lucky enough to build an application for a client based in a country that changes its clocks twice a year, then I'm opening this article without a 100% certain solution as I need to wait about 4 months until I can confirm this works....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Using Remove Key on a Map and Copying Record Tagshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-using-remove-key-on-a-map.html

03 March 2025 What? A quick article on how to use remove() on a map variable as well as a snippet of code to copy tags from a contact to a deal record. Why? Anything that stumps me for 30 minutes is worth writing a quick article on. In this case, I had a function...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Get Full Day Namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-full-day-name.html

08 November 2018 What? This is a very quick note with the code to retrieve the full day name from a date (eg. "Monday"). Why? If I use the toString() function to get the day, it only returns the first 3 letters of the day (eg. "Mon"). My_Date = today; Day_Name =...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Hide Reset Button on Formhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-hide-reset-button-on-form.html

15 November 2018 What? So another quick note as I couldn't find a solution on the forums. This is to hide the reset button on a non-stateless form (state form?). I have posted this on the Zoho forums as well but here goes: Why? Because I can. And because as someone...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge: Check Time Booking Slotshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-check-time-booking-slots.html

05 December 2018 What? Just wanted a note to get in my head the logic if checking a requested time slot isn't a double-booking (as in, the time slot doesn't overlap a previous booking. How? Given a date/time and a duration, we will work out the requested start and end...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge - Get Current User IDhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-current-user-id.html

08 April 2019 What? This is a quick article on different ways to get the current user ID in Zoho through code. How? I'm not a fan of method #1 but I only started developing in Zoho recently when API v1 was already being deprecated (end of life at the end of this...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Locationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-user-timezone-country-and-location.html

03 June 2019 What? A quick article just as a note to get the users country information from a third-party API based on the given IP address. How? Well this is just a list of free 3rd-party APIs and the below code is dependent on these being online and working... The...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge - Store and repopulate a multi lookup list in Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-store-and-repopulate-a-multi-lookup-list-in-creator.html

28 June 2019 What? A quick reminder on how I got a working snippet of code to store the entries in the lookup already selected, check against another table/form for valid options, repopulate the list with the selected item and filtering the options available for...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to URL Parametershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-url-parameters.html

09 March 2020 What? A quick article on converting a Map (associative array with keys and values) into a URL string to pass as URL parameters. How? Let's first define a map: m_Payload = Map(); m_Payload.put("client_id","my-unique-client-id");...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge: Generate and Send a CSV via Emailhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-and-send-a-csv-via-email.html

16 June 2021 ]; Issue(s): CSV being returned in a single line, consider different methods of inserting a new line: Joel Lipman: ZohoDeluge: Inserting a new line character in a CSV

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Projects: Deluge to Submit Custom Fieldshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-deluge-to-submit-custom-fields.html

17 June 2021 What? A super quick article to demonstrate an example where we create a project with custom fields. Why? At time of print, the documentation on the Projects API would only show responses rather than requests. Sure it lists fields that are required in...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Push a value to a datetime field in CRMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-push-a-value-to-a-datetime-field-in-crm.html

10 September 2021 What? A very quick article to show pushing the date and time to ZohoCRM or ZohoCreator. Why? You may have received an error that goes something like: datatype: datetime How? Here are some formatting examples: Creator to CRM: v_CreatorTime =...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Public URL of an Image field / Upload to Shopify APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-public-url-of-an-image-field-upload-to-shopify-api.html

17 October 2021 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...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTIONhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/expecting-zc_subform_250-expression-found-collection.html

19 October 2020 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' or...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Change Radio into Tabshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-change-radio-into-tabs.html

22 October 2021 to be changed as well to the new name and follow the syntax .zc-NewName-group{}]. What I have (Original) I want to run some deluge (snippets below) every time the form loads, so I Go to Workflows > Form Workflows > Select your form Click on New Workflow...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho CRM/Creator - Common Errors & Gotchashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-common-errors-gotchas.html

06 February 2020 // yields: 123456789012345678 Problem: Inserting a date time string into a date time field in Deluge So annoying but sometimes you want to insert a date/time value into a date/time field and you get the error: v_MyDateTimeString =...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Download uploaded file and attach to Sales Order in Zoho Bookshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-uploaded-file-and-attach-to-sales-order-in-zoho-books.html

15 May 2020 This is an article to document how to use Zoho Deluge to download a file that was uploaded into a Zoho Creator form and then to attach it to a Sales Order in Zoho Books. Why? Because it took me so long to find out how to do this even after reading the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Shopify API Integration Oauth 2.0 - Update 2022 (Search by SKU GraphQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-api-integration-oauth-2-0-update-2022.html

14 February 2022 This is an article which is the updated version of my article Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API for 2022 using the new policy that Shopify have implemented when creating a custom app. Why? My use-case scenario here is that we have a Zoho Creator app...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Radio group into Calendar Carouselhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-radio-group-into-calendar-carousel.html

09 March 2022 to see previous or next weeks respectively. What I have: What I want: How? This was achieved using some CSS and then some Deluge for the functionality. Let's dig into the CSS and then I'll explain how we made this functional. To prepare for this, I...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

ZohoCRM: Integrate ChatGPT to ZohoZIAhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-integrate-chatgpt-to-zohozia.html

06 March 2023 several steps, so first we will set up the ZIA action "Ask ChatGPT" using the GUI, then we will capture the question using Deluge code and query the OpenAI ChatGPT API to return a response. Getting to the development-side Login to ZohoCRM as a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *