Creating an Application By Adding Forms

You can build a new custom application from the basic, by adding forms. To do this, you first need to decide on the different forms required by your application. When you have decided on this, you can create your application by adding the required forms. Again, Zoho creator provides you a choice here - you can create your application with a blank form and customize it from scratch or create your application with a pre-build template form that suits your requirement.

 

Creating your application by adding a blank form

Creating your application using form template

From Blank Form

 

To create your application from scratch by adding a blank form,

  1. Name your application
  2. Select the Add Form option, specify the Form Name and select Blank Form.
  3. You can create your application to be public, in which case the data can be accessed by public visitors and indexed by search engines (or) to be private. By default, the applications created in ZohoCreator are private and is accessible only by the owner of the application to view, add, modify and delete the records.
  4. Click on Create Now to create your application with a blank form. 

 

For example, if you are creating a application named Employee Management with the form name as Employee, the application will be created with a blank "Employee" Form.

- The Employee form will be listed in the Forms Tab. You can add new fields to the Employee form, add new forms, and modify existing forms. Refer the section, Editing Your Application, for more information.

 

- Zoho Creator creates a default view for the Employee form. The default view is listed in the Views Tab. You can add new views and modify existing views. Refer the topic, Editing Your Application for more information.


- The new application will be listed in your Home page.

Using Form Template

 

Template forms are ready-made forms that you can start to use immediately. Some of the most commonly used forms like Contact form, Registration form, Feedback form etc., are provided as Templates in Zoho Creator. To see the full list of Template forms, select Use Form Template option, view the Template list and see whether or not it meets your requirement. To create a form from a Template,

  1. Name your application and select the Add Form option
  2. Specify the Form Name
  3. Select Use Form Template and select the required template from the Template list.
  4. You can create your application to be public, in which case the data can be accessed by public visitors and indexed by search engines (or) to be private. By default, the applications created in ZohoCreator are private and is accessible only by the owner of the application to view, add, modify and delete the records.
  5. Click on Create Now to create an application with the Template form.

 

For example, if you want to create a small application to maintain your contact details, you can use the Form Template Contact Form from the template list, as shown in the screen-shot below. The application will be created with the selected template form.

- The Add Contacts form will be listed in the Forms Tab. You can use the form as such or customize it to suit your requirement.

- The Add Contacts view will be listed in the Views Tab. You can use the view as such or customize it to suit your requirement.

 

- Refer the section, Editing Your Application, for more information.