Insert Subform Data

Purpose

To insert a new record with subforms in a module.

Endpoints

Request Details

Request URL

{api-domain}/crm/{version}/{module_api_name}

Supported modules

Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Deals, Campaigns, Cases, Solutions, Products, Vendors, Quotes, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Invoices and Custom.

Header

Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken d92d4xxxxxxxxxxxxx15f52

Scope

scope=ZohoCRM.modules.{module_name}.{operation_type}

Possible module names

leads, accounts, contacts, deals, campaigns, cases, solutions, products, vendors, quotes, salesorders, purchaseorders, invoices and custom.

Possible operation types

ALL - Full access to a record
WRITE - Edit records in a module
CREATE - Create records in a module

Sample Request

Curl Java PHP Csharp Python Node JS Ruby Deluge

Copiedcurl "https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Leads"
-H "Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.8cb99dxxxxxxxxxxxxx9be93.9b8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxf"
-d "@newlead.json"
-X POST

8.0.0

Copiedpackage com.zoho.crm.api.sample.restapi.subform;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;
public class InsertSubformData 
{
	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		try
		{
			HttpClientBuilder httpClientBuilder = HttpClientBuilder.create();
			SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getDefault();
			SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslConnectionSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
			CloseableHttpClient httpclient = httpClientBuilder.setSSLSocketFactory(sslConnectionSocketFactory).build();
			URIBuilder uriBuilder = new URIBuilder("https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Subform_1");
			HttpUriRequest requestObj = new HttpPost(uriBuilder.build());
			HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase requestBase = (HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase) requestObj;
			JSONObject requestBody = new JSONObject();
			JSONArray recordArray = new JSONArray();
			JSONObject recordObject = new JSONObject();
			recordObject.put("FieldAPIName", "FieldAPIValue");
			recordArray.put(recordObject);
			requestBody.put("data", recordArray);
			requestBase.setEntity(new StringEntity(requestBody.toString(), HTTP.UTF_8));
			requestObj.addHeader("Authorization", "Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx");
			HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(requestObj);
			HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
			System.out.println("HTTP Status Code : " + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
			if(responseEntity != null)
			{
				Object responseObject = EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity);
				String responseString = responseObject.toString();
				System.out.println(responseString);
			}
		}
		catch(Exception ex)
		{
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

4.x

Copied<?php

class InsertSubformData
{
    public function execute(){
        $curl_pointer = curl_init();
        
        $curl_options = array();
        $url = "https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Subform_1";

        $curl_options[CURLOPT_URL] =$url;
        $curl_options[CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER] = true;
        $curl_options[CURLOPT_HEADER] = 1;
        $curl_options[CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST] = "POST";
        $requestBody = array();
        $recordArray = array();
        $recordObject = array();
        $recordObject["FieldAPIName"]="FieldAPIValue";
        
        $recordArray[] = $recordObject;
        $requestBody["data"] =$recordArray;
        $curl_options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS]= json_encode($requestBody);
        $headersArray = array();
        
        $headersArray[] = "Authorization". ":" . "Zoho-oauthtoken " . "1000.30f3a589XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX4077.dc5XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXee9e7c171c";
        
        $curl_options[CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER]=$headersArray;
        
        curl_setopt_array($curl_pointer, $curl_options);
        
        $result = curl_exec($curl_pointer);
        $responseInfo = curl_getinfo($curl_pointer);
        curl_close($curl_pointer);
        list ($headers, $content) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
        if(strpos($headers," 100 Continue")!==false){
            list( $headers, $content) = explode( "\r\n\r\n", $content , 2);
        }
        $headerArray = (explode("\r\n", $headers, 50));
        $headerMap = array();
        foreach ($headerArray as $key) {
            if (strpos($key, ":") != false) {
                $firstHalf = substr($key, 0, strpos($key, ":"));
                $secondHalf = substr($key, strpos($key, ":") + 1);
                $headerMap[$firstHalf] = trim($secondHalf);
            }
        }
        $jsonResponse = json_decode($content, true);
        if ($jsonResponse == null && $responseInfo['http_code'] != 204) {
            list ($headers, $content) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $content, 2);
            $jsonResponse = json_decode($content, true);
        }
        var_dump($headerMap);
        var_dump($jsonResponse);
        var_dump($responseInfo['http_code']);
        
    }
    
}
(new InsertSubformData())->execute();

8.x

Copiedusing System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
namespace Com.Zoho.Crm.API.Sample.RestAPI.Subform
{
    public class InsertSubformData
    {
        public static void InsertSubformRecords()
        {
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Subform_1");
            request.Method = "POST";
            request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.abfeXXXXXXXXXXX2asw.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXsdc2";
            JObject requestBody = new JObject();
            JArray recordArray = new JArray();
            JObject recordObject = new JObject();
            recordObject.Add("Name1", "FieldAPIValue");
            recordArray.Add(recordObject);
            requestBody.Add("data", recordArray);
            string dataString = requestBody.ToString();
            var data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(dataString);
            int dataLength = data.Length;
            request.ContentLength = dataLength;
            using (var writer = request.GetRequestStream())
            {
                writer.Write(data, 0, dataLength);
            }
            request.KeepAlive = true;
            HttpWebResponse response;
            try
            {
                response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            }
            catch (WebException e)
            {
                if (e.Response == null) { throw; }
                response = (HttpWebResponse)e.Response;
            }
            HttpWebResponse responseEntity = response;
            Console.WriteLine("HTTP Status Code : " + (int)response.StatusCode);
            string responsestring = new StreamReader(responseEntity.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
            responseEntity.Close();
            Console.WriteLine(responsestring);
        }
    }
}

3.x.x

Copieddef insert_subform_data():
    import requests
    import json

    url = 'https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Subform_1'

    headers = {
        'Authorization' : "Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.cedfaf7fd202b809163e088f4243d155.df3e197b3aa89beab0cb12aa23de281f"
    }

    request_body = {}
    record_list = []

    record_object = {
        'fieldAPIName': 'fieldValue'
    }

    record_list.append(record_object)
    request_body['data'] = record_list

    response = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(request_body).encode('utf-8'))

    if response is not None:
        print("HTTP Status Code : " + str(response.status_code))

        print(response.json())

insert_subform_data()

10.x

Copiedasync function insertSubformData() {
    const got = require('got');
    
    let url = 'https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Subform_1'

    let headers = {
        Authorization : "Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.8cb99dxxxxxxxxxxxxx9be93.9b8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxf"
    }

    let requestBody = {}
    let recordArray = []

    let recordObject = {
        'FieldAPIName': 'FieldAPIValue',
    }
    recordArray.push(recordObject)

    requestBody['data'] = recordArray

    let requestDetails = {
        method : "POST",
        headers : headers,
        body : JSON.stringify(requestBody),
        encoding: "utf8",
        throwHttpErrors : false
    };
    
    let response = await got(url, requestDetails)
    
    if(response != null) {
        console.log(response.statusCode);
        console.log(response.body);
    }
}
insertSubformData()

Copiedrequire 'net/http'
require 'json'

class InsertSubformData
    def execute
       
        url ="https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Subform_1"
        url = URI(url)
        req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.request_uri)
        http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
        http.use_ssl = true
        headers={}
        headers["Authorization"]="Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.dfa7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX84f9665840.c176aeXXXXXXXXXXXX13f3d37a84d"
        headers&.each { |key, value| req.add_field(key, value) }
       
        request_body = {};
        record_array = [];
        record_object = {};
        record_object["FieldAPIName"] = "FieldAPIValue";      
        record_array = [record_object];
        request_body["data"] =record_array; 
        request_json = request_body.to_json
        req.body = request_json.to_s
        response=http.request(req)
        status_code = response.code.to_i
        headers = response.each_header.to_h
        print status_code
        print headers
        unless response.body.nil?
            print  response.body
        end
    end
end

InsertSubformData.new.execute

CopiedLanguagesData = List();
	LanguagesData.add({"Proficiency": "Native","Languages_Known": "English"});
	LanguagesData.add({"Proficiency": "Professional","Languages_Known": "French"});
	
	LeadData = Map();
	LeadData.put("Last_Name", "Contact_test");
	LeadData.put("Email", "contact_test@xyz.com");
	LeadData.put("Company", "Test");
	LeadData.put("Languages", LanguagesData);
	LeadData.put("Availability", [{"Weekends":"false","Weekdays":"true"}]);
	
	LeadDataList = List();
	LeadDataList.add(LeadData);
	
	paramsMap = Map();
	paramsMap.put("data", LeadDataList);
	
	response = invokeurl
[
	url: "https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2.1/Leads"
	type: POST
	parameters: paramsMap.toString()
	connection:"crm_oauth_connection"
];
info response;

In the request, @newlead.json contains the sample input data.

Note

To add multiple subforms, enter the input in the following format.
{
“data”: [
{
....
Subform_1: [
{
sub_form_data
},
],
...
},
{
....
Subform_2: [
{
sub_form_data
},
],
...
}
]
}
The Enterprise and Zoho One editions support a maximum of two subform fields in a module, while the Ultimate and CRM Plus editions support five subform fields in a module. Each subform field can have a maximum of 100 subform records in a single record in a module.
A maximum of 5 aggregate custom fields are available for a subform.
You must use only Field API names in the input. You can obtain the field API names from:
- Fields metadata API (the value for the key “api_name” for every field). (Or)
- Setup > Developer Space > APIs > API Names > {{Module}}. Choose “Fields” from the “Filter By” drop-down.
If there are no JSON objects given within the subform attribute, that subform will be deleted.

Sample Input

Copied{
    "data": [
        {
            "Last_Name": "Contact_test",
            "Email": "contact_test@xyz.com",
            "Languages": [
                {
                    "Proficiency": "Native",
                    "Languages_Known": "English"
                },
                {
                    "Proficiency": "Professional",
                    "Languages_Known": "French"
                }
            ],
            "Availability":[
            	{
            		"Weekends":false,
            		"Weekdays":true
            	}]
        }
    ]
}

Here, "Languages" and "Availability" are two subforms in the Leads module. "Proficiency" and "Languages_Known" are custom picklists in Languages subform. "Weekends" and "Weekdays" are boolean fields in Availability subform.

Possible Errors

INVALID_MODULEHTTP 400
The module name given seems to be invalid
Resolution: You have specified an invalid module name or there is no tab permission, or the module could have been removed from the available modules. Specify a valid module API name.
INVALID_MODULEHTTP 400
The given module is not supported in API
Resolution: The modules such as Documents and Projects are not supported in the current API. (This error will not be shown, once these modules are been supported). Specify a valid module API name.
INVALID_URL_PATTERNHTTP 404
Please check if the URL trying to access is a correct one
Resolution: The request URL specified is incorrect. Specify a valid request URL. Refer to request URL section above.
OAUTH_SCOPE_MISMATCHHTTP 401
Unauthorized
Resolution: Client does not have ZohoCRM.modules.{module_name}.CREATE scope. Create a new client with valid scope. Refer to scope section above.
NO_PERMISSIONHTTP 403
Permission denied to add records
Resolution: The user does not have permission to add subform records. Contact your system administrator.
INTERNAL_ERRORHTTP 500
Internal Server Error
Resolution: Unexpected and unhandled exception in Server. Contact support team.
INVALID_REQUEST_METHODHTTP 400
The http request method type is not a valid one
Resolution: You have specified an invalid HTTP method to access the API URL. Specify a valid request method. Refer to endpoints section above.
AUTHORIZATION_FAILEDHTTP 400
User does not have sufficient privilege to add subform records
Resolution: The user does not have the permission to add subform records. Contact your system administrator.
INVALID_DATAHTTP 400
invalid data
Resolution: The input specified is incorrect. Specify valid input.
MANDATORY_NOT_FOUNDHTTP 400
required field not found
Resolution: You have not specified one or more mandatory fields in the input. Refer to Fields Metadata API to know the mandatory fields.

Sample Response

Copied{
    "data": [
        {
            "code": "SUCCESS",
            "details": {
                "Modified_Time": "2019-04-23T16:57:01+05:30",
                "Modified_By": {
                    "name": "Patricia Boyle",
                    "id": "554023000000235011"
                },
                "Created_Time": "2019-04-23T16:57:01+05:30",
                "id": "554023000000480721",
                "Created_By": {
                    "name": "Patricia Boyle",
                    "id": "554023000000235011"
                }
            },
            "message": "record added",
            "status": "success"
        }
    ]
}