Zoho CRM: JS Widget: Generic Script to pass the Record ID to a CRM functionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-js-widget-generic-script-to-pass-the-record-id-to-a-crm-function.html

18 August 2025 will call an API returning all the credit information about a company. Unfortunately, if you do this simply using Zoho Deluge in a button, there are no new lines/carriage returns or styling that you can apply, which pops up as a message box to the sales...

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Zoho Deluge - Get distance between two coordinateshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/get-distance-between-two-points-in-zoho.html

11 June 2019 What? A quick article to document how to calculate the distance "as the crow files" between two coordinates given the latitude and longitude of each. Why? Well, you can pay for a good Google solution that will distance following roads and the such but.....

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Zoho CRM & Zoho Inventory: Upload Image to Item Record using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-inventory-upload-image-to-item-record.html

21 June 2022 What? A quick article on how to upload an image to the product/item listing in Zoho Inventory. Why? We're enhancing the out-of-the-box integration from eBay to Zoho Inventory bespoke for a customer. We want the photo on eBay to be downloaded and...

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Zoho CRM / Deluge: Send an email with a CRM Quote using a given CRM templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-send-an-email-with-a-crm-quote-using-a-given-crm-template.html

18 August 2022 What? A noteworthy article in my opinion on how to send a CRM quote record using a template the customer created from a button. Why? Yes you can do this already by going to the record, clicking on the ellipsis or three horizontal dots button in the top...

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Zoho CRM: Updating a CRM record Custom Line Items using API v7https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-updating-a-crm-record-using-api-v7.html

18 December 2024 modules line items (quotes, sales orders, invoices, purchase orders). The only way to update these are by using the API and deluge function invokeURL rather than the usual shortcode of zoho.crm.updateRecord() or zoho.crm.createRecord(). How? This is...

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Zoho Creator: isBlank and isNull: Before or After?https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-isblank-and-isnull-before-or-after.html

10 February 2025 A really quick article to test when to use isNull and isBlank. Why? So I've noticed that looking at people's Zoho Deluge code, there will often be a check on a null before or after the variable: if(v_Test.isBlank()) {... } VS if(isBlank(v_Test)) {......

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Zoho Creator: Button on Report for Merging Multiple Selected Recordshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-button-on-report-for-merging-multiple-selected-records.html

06 December 2020 the function. So in "Edit this application" > go to Workflow > Functions > New Function: give the function a name select "Deluge" as the language give it a Namespace (for this example I will leave this on "Default") and set the return type (again in...

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Zoho Creator: Download File from ZohoCRM field type "File Upload" (not attachments)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-file-from-zohocrm-field-type-file-upload-not-attachments.html

02 February 2021 This is an article to demo some Deluge code on how to download a file that was uploaded in CRM in a custom module in field that was of type "File Upload". Why? Just to remind me where I went wrong, I have a client with ZohoCRM who upload a PDF (can be...

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Zoho CRM: Update a custom field in line items / product details using REST API v2.1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-update-a-custom-field-in-line-items-product-details.html

17 May 2021 a line items or product details section of a transactional module such as Quotes, Sales Orders or Invoices using code: Zoho Deluge. Why? At time of print, Zoho had recently introduced the ability to have custom fields in your line items, alongside the...

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Zoho Creator: Two submit buttons on a non-stateless form with 2 different redirectshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-two-submit-buttons-on-a-non-stateless-form.html

27 July 2021 (either on "Successful form submission", or on properties "On Successful Submission" > "Direct To", or my favorite, Deluge "openUrl()"). Standard as for any usual form without a redirect. Drag a decision box field on to the form; we are calling ours...

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Zoho Creator / Shopify: Get all Active Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-get-all-active-products.html

12 October 2021 At time of print, I ran this to retrieve 1970 active product IDs and their SKUs without erroring by going over the Zoho Deluge statement execution limit. Additional: See my other articles for integrating Shopify API with Zoho Creator: Zoho Deluge - Push...

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Zoho Creator: Copy Subform to other Subformshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-copy-subform-to-other-subforms.html

17 November 2021 The code I create a workflow that when the decision box "Copy Monday to the Other Days" is clicked it runs the following deluge script: // only run if true if(input.Copy_Monday_to_the_Other_Days) { // init c_Tuesday = Collection(); c_Wednesday =...

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ZohoCRM & Xero Real-Time Invoices: Receive Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-xero-real-time-invoices-receive-webhook.html

10 January 2022 So this is an article expanding on my article Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API and explores how instead of a schedule, we can get Xero to tell ZohoCRM whenever an invoice or contact gets updated in Xero. Why? I used to use ZohoCRM schedules to pull...

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Zoho CRM: searchRecords with sorted resultshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-searchrecords-with-sorted-results.html

10 February 2022 = ifnull(r_CoqlSortedProducts.get("data"), List()); Source(s): Joel Lipman - ZohoCRM: Process all records of a module Zoho Deluge - Search Records in Zoho CRM Zoho Deluge - Get Records from Zoho CRM

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ZohoRecruit: Create Linking Table for Candidates and Associated Job Openingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohorecruit-create-linking-table-for-candidates-and-associated-job-openings.html

08 February 2023 that we will use so as to create unique records The connection Within any syntax editor of ZohoRecruit (where you type the deluge code), there will be a "Connections" in the top grey bar that you should click on and create a connection with the scopes...

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Zoho Books / Inventory: Get Item Rate from a Price Book/Listhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-get-item-rate-from-a-price-book-list.html

23 May 2024 A quick article on how to get the pricebook entry using Zoho Deluge for a specific product in your ZohoBooks or ZohoInventory instance. Why? This took me the best part of an hour to determine by going through forum posts from 7 years to 2 years ago. The...

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ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent invoiceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-xero-function-to-pull-most-recent-invoices.html

09 October 2025 Thought I already had an article on this and I know my article Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API covered a quick query to pull some invoices but this one documents a pull and mapping into CRM invoices. Why? This took me a whole afternoon so I wanted a...

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Zoho Creator: Retrieve record with case-insensitive queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-retrieve-record-with-case-insensitive.html

21 November 2019 logic searches to broaden the resultset containKey Applies to maps only containValue Applies to maps only Source(s): Zoho Deluge - Functions which return a boolean value Community » Zoho Creator » CASE INSENSITIVE EXAMPLE PLEASE

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Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-create-a-widget-which-uses-javascript.html

24 October 2020 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...

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Zoho Creator: info/alert/modal/popup notification for any userhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-info-alert-modal-popup-notification-for-any-user.html

06 November 2020 is on report workflow (click of a button in a report row) but I've also used this on the submission of a stateless form, in deluge: v_nTitle = encodeUrl("Test"); v_nText = encodeUrl("Test Content"); openUrl(...

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