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A quick way to stop non-admin users changing the owner of existing tasks in Zoho CRM, while administrators retain that ability. The setting is the Change Owner permission for the Tasks module in the users’ profile.
This is an article about a Zoho Billing custom function that worked when it was executed manually but did not run automatically when a new invoice was created. The custom function was configured with the Invoice Created trigger. However, opening the function displayed the following message: Workflow does not exist! Inv...
A function to calculate how many trays of each available size are needed for a requested number of portions. Pass in the portion count and a list of tray capacities, and Ascent.fn_CalculatePortionCount returns a map of tray sizes to quantities. The important detail is what “best” means: first minimise surplus capacity...
A quick article on something a little different from my usual CRM functions and debugging notes. This time I have been playing with OpenAI's ChatGPT Image 2.5 and its sketch feature, using a few very rough drawings as the starting point for a Georgian-inspired home concept. The idea was to see how far I could take some...
A quick article on using a Zoho Analytics discrepancy table to add missing products and update existing product records in Zoho CRM. In this example, Unleashed supplies the product details, Zoho Analytics identifies the differences, and a scheduled Deluge function applies the changes to a custom CRM module.
Thought I'd write an article to help me the next time I needed to connect the Unleashed inventory software API directly to Zoho Analytics and pull in the product catalogue.
Not sure what this is but it's an article listing some errors in Zoho Books when using the shortcode command to retrieve the details for an item in Zoho Books...
A very quick article updated for 2026 and tested as working to attach a file to a bill in Zoho Books over API.
Pretty self-explanatory really. Something to be cautious about but it took me so long to do that I needed an article here to help me if ever I get asked to do it again. Siimply put, Zoho Analytics can't see the Zoho People Salary table within the built-in integration / synchronization.
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