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This is an article documenting how to send a Zoho Deluge Map request to an API which is expecting nested/2d/multi-dimensonal arrays. In the example below, we are posting to a PHP script for testing but I have since sent something similar to an API expecting nested arrays (not sure if they were PHP) and it works.
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".
This is a quick article to template some code to me on sorting a map variable in Zoho Deluge, specifically Zoho Creator.
This article documents how to stop an employee from applying for leave when already 80% of their team have already booked the same date off. My brief was: Check the department this employee belongs to Search for employees of the same department (team members) who have booked the same days off (ie count holiday clashes)...
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.
This is an article to document a standalone function which generates an access token from within Zoho CRM so you can access your Xero instance. There are 3rd-party API libraries and SDKs out there but as usual with financial technologies (fintech), I don't trust them. Here's how to do it in pure Deluge with a Zoho CRM...
The following is a script template that I can quickly adapt for Zoho and Shopify integration. This will take an item from Zoho Inventory and post it to Shopify. How? Pretty quick to do in Zoho Deluge but first you need to go register the app in your client's Shopify store:
A quick article on how to debug some errors in Zoho.
So this is an article with some common snippets of code that use the InvokeConnector and do things we can't do in shortcode.
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