Now you can build and host custom database applications without any infrastructure costs.
Do you want to create databases that your team members can access online? Zoho Creator is an online database built just for you. Use this intuitive and feature-rich Platform as a Service (PaaS) to build and host your custom database applications. Just write your business rules and let the software handle deployment and hosting. You can create your own forms/tables afresh or import data from standard formats (.xls .csv .mdb) and get your database application online within minutes, really!
Take a moment to explore the Zoho Creator platform:
- Design
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Drag and Drop InterfaceZoho Creator platform sports easy and intuitive interface to create databases on your own quickly. Just drag and drop fields/datatypes to create forms/tables. You can also add business rules through drag and drop.
Supported Fields/Data TypesZoho Creator supports 20 field types such as Text Field - Single Line, Multiline. Checkboxes, Radio Button and more...You can also add Images, Notes and also Upload files to the form/table
Form Properties
Customize form properties like - Thank you message you wanted to show your users after they submit data, maybe something like- "Hey thanks for filling the data" -or- "Data Added Successfully". You can customize width of all the fields. Zoho Creator also provides you option to prevent spam/automated entries by setting verification code (captcha)
- Logic
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Actions/TriggersForm/Table Level
Trigger actions when a new record is added, record is modified or deleted. Supported Actions: On Load, Validate and On Success.Field/Datatype Level
Trigger actions whenever the value of a field gets modified or changed in the form. Supported Actions: On User Input, On Update
Scheduler
Scheduler lets you create timed actions without any user input. These timed actions can be executed periodically based on the date and time values present in the form or on fixed date and time. You can:
Send automated emailsEmail data as attachmentsAuto schedule date fields like- Birth date, Appointments, Project Deadline etc... in your form
Custom Actions
Custom Actions are the actions performed on selected records in the data view. You can define a function and configure it as your custom action. For eg: You can define your custom Action to 'Send Email Notification', So just by selecting records from the view and clicking on custom action, emails can be triggered automatically.
Custom Validations
Validation is a mechanism for verifying whether the actual value of a variable at execution time corresponds to the expected value of that variable. The validation scripts will be called before the user data is stored into the database. The script runs on the server side, and it has access to all the inputs the user enters. Types of Validations: On Add, On Edit, On Delete - Customisation
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Rebranding
The entire Zoho Creator database application can be modified to suit your own branding. Change the color scheme, customize layout and add your own logo.
Themes
Zoho Creator provides options to change color themes for your databases. You can also create your own theme by setting Font Family, Font Size, Application Header Style, Section Style, Tab Style, Label Aligment and much more. You can create a custom theme and apply to all your database applications.
Custom HTML pages
Create customized views by combining HTML code and Deluge script (In-built scripting language). You can create static HTML pages to deliver dynamic content from your database. Create dashboard pages, Customized bills Invoices and much more...
- Collaboration
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Private access
Make your databases as 'Private' and share it with your team-members and friends by specifying their e-mail id's. Zoho Creator provides 3 levels of sharing:
Application Level - Access to all forms & viewsPage/Tab Level - Access to all forms/views placed in the page / tabForm/View Level - Access to only specific form/view.
Publish to the internet
Make your database as 'Public' and open-up access to anyone on the Internet to add and view data. Data will be indexed by search engines like Google and Bing.
Dynamic Sharing
Zoho Creator provides the power for you to Share/UnShare an application, page, form or view to the specified email addresses dynamically. - Extras
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Set Email Notification
Get notified via email when your user adds, modifies or deletes a record. You can even set to receive the added/modified records directly to your mail inbox.
Export Data
You can easily export data from your database in the following formats:Spreadsheet for analyzingPDF to print/e-mail dataHTML for bookmarking or sending linksCSV & TSV for mobility of dataJSON feed, a lightweight data-interchange format
Mobile AccessAccess all your databases and shared databases from your mobile devices. Zoho Creator supports mobile devices with any of the following browsers: Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Opera, Safari, other WAP Browsers. Zoho Creator's interface has been optimized to work well in iPhone and Android browsers.
Credible Systems have created more than 50 bespoke Zoho Creator applications for our clients and ourselves. Ranging from a simple feedback form to a fully featured business management application for a company offering unique services they all have 3 things in common.
- Shorter time to create a proof of concept - ideas can be tried quickly and cheaply
- Licence costs started at £0.00 and only grew once the application was earning its keep
- Each solved a unique problem not addressed by 'Off the shelf' software
Zoho CRM integration with Zoho Creator is growing, making business applications more context driven. To understand more about this read our case study featured on the Zoho Blog here: http://bit.ly/zohopartner
