The Application Settings dialog can be invoked from the Settings option displayed in the Home page as shown in the screen-shot given below,
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From the Settings tab, select Application Settings option.
The Application Settings Dialog
By default, the Zoho Creator application name and application link name are the same. If the application name contains white spaces, it is replaced by a "hypen" in the application link name. For example, if the application name is "Employee Manager", the default application link name is "employee-manager".
Zoho Creator provides the flexibility to modify the application name or the application link name, anytime by specifying the new name in the Application Settings dialog. Click Save button to save the changes.
You can choose the Sign in option for your users as Zoho, Google, GoogleApps or Yahoo. The default sign-in option is Zoho. For example, if the application is set to use Google sign-in, the shared users will be directed to Google's login page and application will be accessible after entering their Gmail username/password. A zoho account for each user will be automatically created and they need not sign-up for zoho.
If the sign-in option is selected as Zoho, the application owner can choose to show or hide the federated login options like Google, Yahoo and GoogleApps, in the Signin dialog. Selecting Yes will display the federated logins in the Zoho login page. Selecting No will hide the federated logins from the Zoho login page, allowing users to signin only through Zoho.
If the sign-in option is selected as Zoho, the application owner can choose to show or hide the Zoho Signup link to shared users. Selecting Yes will display the Zoho Signup link using which the users will be able to signup with Zoho. Selecting No will not display the sign up link to shared users.
An application created in Zoho Creator can either be public or private. All forms and views in a public application is accessible by public visitors. A private application can be accessed only if the owner of the application shares it with specific users, from the Share tab. By default, an application created in Zoho Creator is private.
If a shared user is configured as a "developer", the developer's email ID will be listed in the "Enable Admin Access to" drop down of the Application Settings dialog, for all the applications. To provide edit permission to the developer to edit a specific application, the owner should go to the Application Settings of that particular application and under the dropdown "Enable Admin Access to" choose the developer's ID. Click Save button to save the configurations.
To execute HTML tags in field values set the "Allow HTML Tags option to "Yes" in the Application Settings dialog. To stop executing HTML tags, set the "Allow HTML Tags option to "No". Click Save button to save the configurations. For example, the html tags <br> used to insert line breaks in field values, will be executed only if the "Allow HTML Tags" option is set to "Yes".
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The application owner can choose to show/hide the option that will enable shared users to save changes to the shared views and create new views. Selecting Yes will display the Save as /Create new view option. Selecting No will hide these options from shared users.
Zoho Creator supports multiple date formats. To set a date format for your application, select the required format from the Date Format drop-down list in the Application Settings dialog. The default date format is "dd-MMM-yyyy". Click Save button to save the configurations.
Zoho Creator supports various Time Zones. Users have the flexibility of choosing different Time Zones for each application that they create in Zoho Creator. To set the required time zone, select the time zone relevant to your locale from Time Zone dropdown menu in the Application Settings dialog. Click Save button to save the configurations.
To debug an issue reported, the support staff may sometimes request you to allow edit access to support for your application. To share your application with edit access, click on the button Allow edit access to support displayed on the right-side of the Application Settings dialog.
