Some of you may be thinking I am a "one tracked minded" person right now but HEY! I'm ranting here ;-)
Seriously though, ZOHO Creator, I have to admit that this is the first time I've blogged about a service, used the service, had a problem with a service to have those who make the service respond so quickly to me! Therefore I think it's only fair to send out a thank you to them, let them know I appreciate it and they've just found themselves another loyal user.
Yesterday I posted twice about this topic, making a total of 3 posts about Zohocreator. My original post was simply a "hey look over here", my second post was about creating an actual app inside of 10 mins, the third was related to the Zoho team being truely focused and dedicated. Today's post will be confirming that they really are.
Two things happened yesterday to confirm to me that they are dedicated. I had sent a trackback ping over to the Zoho blog because my third post was related, this of course alerted them that I was writing about them - the result was a comment to my blog.
Craig,
We appreciate your comments. We do have independent teams working on each Zoho service, and in general, if something is not coming fast, it is not due to lack of people, but more likely due to inherent complexity.
We will do our best to meet your expectation.
Sridhar
Followed up with a response to my one open question in their forums, the one about an advanced feature to access data across multiple forms.
This of course was at first what appeared to be "lip service", but then I gave it some more thought and I realized "who am I" to ask them? They gave me an honest answer - "we're working on it" - can I expect more? At this point I realized I don't actually know that much about the whole Zohocreator service, only what I read over on Ismael's blog, the great one dealing with "Office 2.0". So I figured it's time I take a closer look at what Zohocreator is about.
I'm just missing one item, perhaps it's there and I just didn't find it? I'm missing a roadmap, something to let me know what they are planning. If I had an idea then maybe I wouldn't waste their time with my requests, or better yet I could give them feedback on what features they are wanting to implement?
Ismael seems to be really excited about DabbleDB, and to be honest with the feedback he's getting I can understand. Well I want to be this excited about Zohocreator and I think with the responses I'm starting to get I'm on the way to that point...
3 comments:
Zoho Creator already supports fetching data from other forms but in addition to that you also wanted to update a field leftover with the fetched data. It is not possible to update data from deluge script now. Read mode about fetching form data. The feature you wanted is already in our priority list and will be supported soon.
And other features that we plan to support include, but not limited to
Groupby in view
Bulk edit
Auto increment field in form
Iterating rows in a form (Deluge script)
Updating data in deluge script
Integrating a scheduler - So you will be able to create a reminder service or a project tracker.
And we also give priority to feature requests from users.
Suganya.
In addition to fetching data from multiple forms, it is also possible now to update a field in the "on submit" and "on success" scripts. Please refer to http://forums.zohocreator.com/viewtopic.php?p=48297
Suganya
Excellent news! Great ot hear thanks for dropping a line!
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