Zoho News

Zoho CRM: Map Dependency Fields Enhancements DC Update

The Map Dependency Fields enhancements covered last week are now available in the US and India data centers, expanding access to the improved setup experience.

Zoho CRM: March 2026 Community Digest Part 2

The latest CRM community digest recaps a busy March, including Command Center updates, CRM for Everyone rollout notes, AI improvements, API documentation fixes, and several community-driven enhancements.

Zoho CRM: Mobile Lookup Filters, Approval Recall, and Canvas Field Support

The CRM mobile apps received several useful updates, including lookup filters on Android, approval recall on iOS, multi-select lookup and tag support for Android Canvas views, and autosaved mobile preferences.

Zoho Desk: Upgraded Sentiment Analysis in Zia

Zia’s sentiment analysis model in Desk got an upgrade for more accurate ticket sentiment detection, with expanded support for 11 additional languages beyond English.

Zoho POS: April 2026 Updates

This month’s POS update adds web tabs, web forms, iOS support for Arabic and right-to-left layouts in Saudi Arabia, and expanded availability to the UK.

Zoho Sprints: Layout Rules for Release Layouts

Layout Rules have been extended to the Release layout in Sprints, allowing teams to control field visibility, set conditional mandatory fields, and restrict status transitions for a cleaner release workflow.

Zoho Office Integrator: Conditional Formatting for Entire Spreadsheet Rows

Office Integrator’s spreadsheet editor now supports row-level conditional formatting, letting users highlight entire rows based on a single cell’s value with multiple color-coded conditions.

Zoho Global Research Study: State of Workforce Password Security 2026

A new global study of 3,322 respondents from Zoho Vault found that 91% of US workers believe AI will strengthen their security posture, but only 9% are ready to deploy AI-powered security today, the largest belief-to-deployment gap of any region surveyed.

Code Share of the Week

Get list of CRM Picklist Options via API

This week’s code share shows how to pull CRM picklist values through a metadata API call, which is especially useful when you need to review, copy, compare, or map picklist values across systems without manually clicking through every option. The function runs in the Deluge testing environment and outputs picklist values for a selected module, making it a quick quality-of-life tool for admins and developers working on integrations, AI data mapping, or third-party systems that require picklist value IDs.

This Week’s Blog

CFO Services Group – Case Study

This case study highlights how Zenatta helped CFO Services Group streamline client onboarding, project creation, budget tracking, timesheet compliance, and reporting across Zoho CRM, Projects, Forms, Sign, Billing, WorkDrive, and Analytics, resulting in a more connected operational system for managing engagements from signed contract through project delivery.

Tips and Tricks

What is a Zoho Partner?

A walkthrough of what a Zoho Partner is, how partner tiers differ, and what businesses should consider when evaluating Zoho implementation support, including different engagement models from full-service project work to collaborative consulting.

Zoho CRM Data Modules Explained

A tutorial covering the core Zoho CRM data structure (Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Deals, and Activities), along with best practices like lead conversion setup, pipeline customization, and why these modules matter for clean CRM architecture.

This Week’s Quizzes

• Monday Quiz: How does the ‘advanced field prompting’ enhancement improve Zia’s ICR accuracy?
• Wednesday Quiz: How does message status tracking (delivered vs. read) help support teams manage IM conversations?