What's New
2017
Apr
Flat dashboard for mobile apps
The mobile apps now look more like part of your device. We have followed the native Android, iOS themes and a flat dashboard for your apps. The dynamic font support allows you to set your own font size preferences. An easy access button is provided to get back to your recent actions in your app like search history and records. Download the latest mobile app now.
Jan
Mobile App for customer portal
A separate mobile app for your Zoho Creator customer portal. Log in to your dedicated portals, access applications shared with you, submit data, and edit the records you have submitted.
2016
Nov
Offline support on mobile app
The Zoho Creator mobile app got an update. You can now access your data even when there is no connectivity. You can add data too, which will be synced when you get back online.
READ MOREAug
Autocomplete added to Free-flow scripting
The free-flow Deluge editor is now easier than Script Builder! We have added keyboard shortcuts, along with features like Auto complete and drag-drop functionality that makes scripting hands-free. (Well, almost!)
READ MOREJul
Sandbox
The Sandbox feature allows you to create a duplicate version of your application. It is basically a testing environment where you can test changes or perform experiments in edit mode. This feature is extremely useful when you want to implement critical changes without interrupting the current users of the application. Use Sandbox to roll out quality updates every time.
READ MORE2015
Sep
Push Notifications
Push Notifications are a great way of sending out prompt messages to the users' mobile devices or tablets. Users can receive push notifications in different cases: if the app is not being actively used, if the device is locked or if the app is running in the background.
READ MOREAug
QR code and Barcode Scanning
Barcodes and QR codes are machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. Applications like product tracking, item identification, time tracking, document management, event management, etc. can make use of these codes, which can later be scanned by hand-held scanning devices or mobiles devices.
READ MOREGeo-Fencing for Zoho Creator Mobile App
Geo-fence is a virtual barrier and a location-based service that can be configured into the custom app accessible on mobile. Geo-fencing feature can be added to an application that uses GPS coordinates to define geographical boundaries. It combines user location with user proximity to the location that may be of interest.
READ MOREMar
Zoho Subscription Integration
Zoho Creator is now integrated with Zoho Subscriptions, a recurring billing and subscription management app that lets you manage subscriptions. With this integration, you can automate subscription workflows for your custom apps.
READ MORERecord Audit
Record Audit is a great feature that lets business users capture the history of changes made to a record of data within an application. These serve as documentary evidences for the sequence of activities taking place with your application records. With this feature one can keep track and view all the changes made to the records.
READ MOREScheduled Backup
Scheduled Backup feature lets you back up your application with data. With this feature in Zoho Creator, you can obtain a copy of the backup file after the application is backed-up or even restore it very easily.With Scheduled Backup, you can set up weekly, monthly and yearly backups for your application.
READ MOREFeb
Deluge Interactive Tutorial
Experience dynamic power of Zoho Creator. You can now take your application building skills to the next level. Learn the basics of Deluge with the help of this interactive tutorial from your browser.
READ MORE2014
Nov
Conditional Formatting
Conditional Formatting enables you to highlight text in Reports. You can customize the look of text in reports, based on a defined criteria. If the criteria is met, the selected text gets displayed according to its customized format.
READ MORESep
Signature Field
Signature field type allows instant validation from a customer through his/her digital signature, eliminating the need of paper work. Signature field type can be useful in applications such as "Delivery confirmation", "Purchase orders approval", "Policy acknowledgements" etc.
READ MOREAug
Integration with Zoho Support
Integration with Zoho Support, your help desk software, makes the exchange of information between the two apps seamless. It is now possible to create, update or fetch information from Zoho Support. You can even build custom modules for the Zoho Support application or simply bring information into your Zoho Creator custom app and build reports and collaborate with other users.
READ MOREIntegrations: Quickbooks & Salesforce
Integrations bring Zoho Creator closer to other services like Google Apps and other Zoho apps such as Zoho CRM, Zoho Reports, Zoho Invoice, etc. In addition to this we are happy to announce the integration with Quickbooks and Salesforce.
READ MOREApr
Record Level Security & Permission
Great news for those who share Zoho Creator apps with multiple people. On the Enterprise Plan, you can now provide access to specific data only to the people you choose. Assign and control access permission to any information in the application, down to every record & field.
READ MOREApp Translation: Localize custom business apps with Zoho Creator
Zoho Creator customers don’t just speak many different languages, but they also collaborate with co-workers, customers and vendors who speak several other languages. App translation is important to our customers. And, here it is. We’re excited to announce that you can now easily translate your Zoho Creator apps into multiple languages.
READ MORERealtime Chat with Livedesk integration
Zoho Live Desk is an easy-to-use live chat software solution allowing your customers to chat and connect with you on the go. It empowers your customers to reach out to you within seconds and get their doubts clarified, without having to call or email you. You can embed this feature in your website or your customer portal. Once done, your customers are just a click away from reaching you.
READ MOREMar
Form Automation: Trigger actions from your form
Form Automation allows you to create dynamic forms that perform certain tasks based on the values specified in the form. You can automate your form to display custom confirmation message, redirect users to different web pages, send custom email/sms notifications depending on the values specified by the user, while filling the form.
READ MOREJan
SMS Notification
SMS notification feature enables you to pass on time-critical information instantly. We have integrated with popular services like Clickatell and Twilio for this. You could now send out a notification when a record is modified or a certain condition is met. Use the drag-drop rule builder to easily create any complex conditions and activate the SMS notification for the criteria being fulfilled. You could set scheduled SMS reminders for a later date or simply send a “Thank you” SMS instantly.
READ MOREReports in Spreadsheet format
A spreadsheet report allows you to view data, cellularly arranged, in rows and columns. It is similar to the grid report but is more user-friendly as the fields are sized according to the data present in them. Thus we see the entire data present in a field without having to click on it.
READ MORE2013
Sep
Customer Portal
A Customer Portal is a great way for an organization to allow its customers to login into their dedicated internal system and access restricted data. Instead of building their own authentication and security mechanisms, users can use Zoho Creator portals. Users can sign up with their portal instead of signup with Zoho. Users can login into their dedicated portal, access applications shared to them, submit data, and most importantly, view and edit only those records which they submitted.
READ MORECustom Record Summary
The Record Summary feature (applicable only for list report format) allows you to create a custom view of each record, by just drag-and-drop of fields in the required position. You can also insert images and description and make each record look like a page in itself. For example, you can create an invoice document from a single invoice record. Other uses include creation of estimates, brochures, certificates, newsletters, campaign mails, visiting cards, product phamplets etc.
READ MORENew Intuitive User Interface
Our new UI has a flat-interlinked-monochromatic design that can help you build apps more intuitively and in lesser time. The UI organizes the favorite tools into clear sections, interlinks the pages for easy navigation, resulting in a substantial reduction of time spent in building the apps. Now that it is easier to build apps, you would find yourself building apps more frequently.
READ MOREForm Validations & Activity
You can specify the Start and End time during which the form can be accessed by users. Users can submit form data only during this period, when the Form is active. Also provided more validations like "One Entry Per IP Address", "One Entry Per User" and "Maximum Allowed Entries"
READ MOREAug
Mobile Apps: Access to Critical Information Anytime, Anywhere
With mobility being critical to businesses, Zoho Creator offers native apps for iOS and Android devices, allowing business users to manage their apps and access the data on their mobile devices. The new mobile apps allow users to access their Creator apps — personal, shared and workspace apps — along with the forms within the apps. Users can add, edit and delete data within the app. Users can also search, filter, group, sort and apply custom actions on data. Zoho Creator mobile apps support all deluge events.
READ MORE2012
Nov
Scheduled data migration from MS Access and MS Excel
Migrating data between services is a pain, regardless of the services. We’ve always been for simplifying these tedious tasks, because most of Zoho Creator users have the need to synchronize data from in-house applications (ERP system for example), with their custom apps in Zoho Creator. The Zoho Creator migration tool was a result of a conscious effort to simplify data migration.
READ MOREOct
Allowed Days and Allowed Hours
Configuring Allowed days and Allowed Hours lets users to enter data only in the specified date and time. Similarly when you create a calendar report using the Date - Time field for which the Allowed days and Allowed Hours are set, a report will be created where users can only record their data within the specified date and time.
READ MORESep
Short-circuit evaluation in Deluge
Zoho Creator is now short-circuit-intelligent, and it optimizes the execution of scripts, productively affects time taken to make decisions and improves the overall performance.
READ MORENot-so-minor enhancements
Some enhancements are not major enough to make news, but are still significant. Introducing multi-column layout for radio button and check-box, Image field supports uploading of images and file upload via email attachment.
READ MOREAug
Integrations: Google Apps, CRM, Reports, Invoice, Calendar
Integrations bring Zoho Creator closer to other services like Google Apps and other Zoho apps such as Zoho CRM, Zoho Reports, Zoho Invoice, Zoho Calendar
READ MOREMay
Improved Calendar View
New Calendar view lets you view the events by day, by week, and by month. You can reschedule the event Start/End dates by simple drag-n-drop of the horizontal bar and also easily scroll through to see other events that precede or follow the day, week, month you're in...
READ MOREJan
Searchable Lookup, Exposed Formula Field and Flexible Custom Actions
There has been plenty of activity going on at Zoho Creator lately; regarding Forms, Views, and everything database. The changes they bring are intended to achieve greater convenience in terms of usability, and it comes as a result of increasing responsiveness and customization.
READ MOREEnhancements in the Report Views
With clarity, decisions made are faster and wiser. You have answers to all your questions from the views/reports. Interpreting data is not a pain anymore. Sort, Group, Show/Hide Columns right from the Live mode, now it also lets you apply multiple filters and more...
READ MORE2011
Sep
Subform: One-to-Many Relationships in your applications
Setting up a one to one relationship is pretty straightforward. All you need is a Lookup field. Here's something that can help you set up one to many relationships in a flash. In one to many relationships, there is a parent form which represents the one side of the relationship and there is a child form which represents the many side of the relationship. The child form is included as a part of the main form and is called a SubForm.
READ MOREAug
Payment Module: Build Order Forms, Increase Sales
With the help of this module, users can set up a payment gateway using their PayPal account. Once this gateway is set up, users can build a variety of applications that involve collecting payments, donations, etc. Our enthusiastic users have come up with a dozen applications that use the payment module in innovative ways...
READ MOREApr
Zoho Creator for Google Apps
Another Zoho service that adds great value to your business & which helps you build customized business applications – Zoho Creator. Today with the launch of the 11th Zoho Service for Google Apps Marketplace, Zoho takes the honor of being the largest software provider in Google Apps Marketplace.
READ MORE2010
Oct
Reporting & Task Scheduling
Scheduler at Zoho Creator helps you schedule tasks to be executed at specific times for exactly the period of time that you want your clients to, with absolutely no intervention from you! Generate stunning reports, charts and pivot tables from the data that you’ve so painstakingly accumulated.. and lo and behold! The fruits of your labor are surely sweet and yeah colorful and informative too.
READ MOREAug
Zoho CRM Integration – The First Step
Access Zoho CRM right within your Zoho Creator application. You can now fetch records from any of the modules in your Zoho CRM account into your Zoho Creator application and even create new records in Zoho CRM from within Zoho Creator.
READ MORE2009
Nov
Colorful Forms in Zoho Creator
Zoho Creator offers a plethora of customizing options for your forms. You can find these options in the embed dialog. Click on the “Customize Form Properties and Look and Feel” to reveal the options. The customization options are divided into 4 sections, each section offering customization parameters for various parts of the form.
READ MOREOct
Themes and Layouts for Zoho Creator
Zoho Creator offers 6 different layouts for your applications. You can choose from Pane Left, Pane Right, Tabs,Tabbed Pane Left, Tabbed Pane Right and Dropdown menus. You can segregate your forms/views into various sections and apply the required layout so that your application gets the right look.
READ MOREJul
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
Import your data effortlessly from Microsoft Access to Zoho Creator and Zoho Reports and does much more. What happens when you migrate your database (MDB file) from Microsoft Access to Zoho Creator? Your entire database structure and data are migrated to Zoho Creator and an application is automatically created with Forms (Tables) and Views etc. This is a quick way of creating a web-based collaborative database app from your non-collaborative Microsoft Access DB.
READ MORE2008
Feb
‘Function’ support in Deluge scripting
‘Functions’ promotes code re-usability of deluge script within an application and even across applications (same user’s applications). It makes the code modular and easy to understand. When you feel like repeating certain scripting functionality across different parts of application, you can define them as separate function and reuse it.
READ MORE2007
Jun
Zoho Creator 2.0 Launches
Zoho Creator just went through a major upgrade that involves some key changes. We call this update as Zoho Creator 2.0. Brand New Interface, Deluge Script Builder and much more...
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