Vertical App Development

For Beginners

Hands On Exercises
This practice guide contains exercises that you can use to try to build an application on the Zoho
Developer Console. Refer the course material for stepwise instructions to complete each exercise.

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Exercise 1:

Create a new 'Job Cards' module and rename the Invoices modules as given in the table.

Module Name Nature of the Module Profile Permissions

Repair Bills Renamed from Invoices Admin, Standard, Service Adviser

Job Cards Custom module Admin, Service Adviser, Technician

Exercise 2:

Once you have added the Customers and Vehicles module as mentioned in unit 1, create the following
custom fields in those modules as given in the table below.

Modules and Sections Custom Fields Type

Customers - general section Person's Name Single Line

Customer GSTN Single Line

Country of Birth Single Line

Company Single Line

Job Title Single Line

Customers - Address Information Country Dropdown Menu

State Dropdown Menu

City Dropdown Menu

Street Address Single Line

Vehicles - general section Vehicle Contact Look up

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 Color Dropdown Menu

Registration Number Single Line

Manufacturer Dropdown Menu

Car Model Dropdown Menu

Chassis Number Single Line

Fuel Type Dropdown Menu

Transmission Dropdown Menu

Fuel Capacity Single Line

Last Service Date Date

Vehicle Capacity Single Line

Next Service Date Date

Engine Displacement Single Line

Distance Travelled Single Line

Total Distance Travelled (till Single Line

day)

Last Service Done (odometer Single Line

reading)

Next Service Due (odometer Single Line

reading)

Kilometres Remaining Till Next Single Line

Service

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Exercise 3:

Create the following custom fields in the Job Cards module as given in the table.

Job Cards - general section Customer Name Lookup

Service IN Date Date

Service Type Dropdown

Menu

Vehicle Lookup

Due Date Date

Kilometres Travelled Number

Service Status Dropdown

Menu

Registration Number Single Line

Pick Up Date & Time Date/Time

Rough Estimate Single Line

Driver Name Single Line

Total Amount Single Line

Total Time Spent On Service (in hrs) Single Line

Arrived Service Type Single Line

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Exercise 4:

Add the following custom fields to the Repair Bills module as given in the table.

Repair Bills - general section Repair Invoice Number Auto Number

Job Card Lookup

Payment Type Dropdown

Menu

Vehicle Registration Number Single Line

Credit Card Last 4 Digits Number

Vehicle Lookup

Repair Bills - Spares and Labor Calculation Spares Total Currency

Labor Total Currency

CGST & SGST Tax System Checkbox

IGST Tax System Checkbox

Repair Bills - Total Calculation Spares Tax Amount Currency

Spares Total After Tax Currency

Labor Tax Amount Currency

Labor Total After Tax Currency

Total Cost Currency

Discount to be Applied Currency

Adjustments Currency

Grand Total Amount Currency

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Exercise 5:

Create a page layout for 'Four Wheeler' after adding the following custom field in the Vehicles module's
general section.

Custom field - "Steering Type" - Single Line.

Exercise 6:

Rename the Related List created for the Vehicles Module to My Vehicles for Service and add the fields
Fuel Type and Fuel Capacity into it.

Exercise 7:

Create a custom single line field named Tyre Brand in Repair Bills Module. Place a custom button Get
Review in Record details page which will redirect the user to the following link

URL: http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/{tyre brand}.

Exercise 8:

Create a link called Identify Vehicle Address in Vehicles module which will redirect you to the following
URL that displays the vehicle address by obtaining the vehicle registration number from the user.

URL : http://www.techdreams.org/trace-vehicle

Exercise 9

● Create an email template titled 'Birthday Wishes' to greet customers on their birthday.
● Create a sample invoice template which gets data from the Address, Bill Amount, Quantity, and
Bank details once a job card is closed.

Exercise 10:

Create a workflow automation to send an email to customers wishing them on their birthday. Use the
Birthday Wishes email template you had created in the previous exercise.

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Exercise 11:

Create a custom button named Add Job Card in Vehicles module. The button should be placed in the List
View Page - Button for each record. Clicking this button should take to you to the Create Job Card page.

Exercise 12:

Create a Related List named Service History in Vehicles module which should fetch the Service in Date
and Service Type details from the Job Cards.

Exercise 13:

Update the Due Date field with appropriate value in Job Cards module whenever a record is created or
edited for the first time. The value in the Due Date field should get updated one day after the rule
trigger.

Exercise 14:

Display a reminder one week before the Next Service Date Due.

Exercise 15:

Assign the amount to the Rough Estimate field of Job Cards module based on the Service Type selected.
Assign the estimate based on the following service type.

Express Check - Interim Service - INR 1000

General Service - INR 800

Full Service - INR 1200

Repair Service - INR 700

Body-shopping - INR 850

General Service & Repair - INR 1500

General Service-Repair-Body Shop - INR 2000

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