Experiences with Zoho Creator?

Question

I wish to create an online system to track some things (e.g., a database with children, where each child has 1 or more visits from doctors). I want the users to be able to enter data as well as search for it, especially from mobile devices. So, this is a custom mobile online DB app of modest but non-zero size.

I've looked into DabbleDB and Zoho Creator, looking for an easy solution that will have low-cost maintenance.

Although I feel my app is not too complicated, I find that if I want to do something slightly out of their mainstream, I hit walls. For example, dealing with many-to-many relationships, or with 100K records, or doing an involved mathematical calculation for a field.

What are people's experiences with these online DB apps? Should I keep pushing ahead, or just write a custom app myself?

Answer 1

I also tried building a simple web application with Zoho Creator and got so frustrated that I am now looking for a different solution. I consider Zoho Creator to be at a point right now suitable for educational purposes but I would not consider using it for a functional application.

Answer 2

Hi I think this systems not bad,but they are paid. Their price impresses! Use free application, example mytaskhelper Thanks

Answer 3

I use it for personal and business use. In fact, I created 3 applications that were used in real business environmnets and solved a lot of problems with no extra investment.

You can easily create applications that deal with 10s of thousands of records with user-friendly forms, even embedded in other websites.

More BI tasks can be done by connecting Creator to Reports. And this is just one example.

I think you should seriously give it a second thought.

Answer 4

Have you ever look at Viravis. It may be the solution you were looking for.