Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 This article documents how to stop an employee from applying for leave when already 80% of their team have already booked the same date off. My brief was: Check the department this employee belongs to Search for employees of the same department (team...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html

05 January 2011 It is the port value of -1 that tells the driver to use named pipes network protocol. This is available on Windows only. The value is ignored if Unix socket is used. Multiple servers Use this to connect to a server in a replicated server configuration...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server
• Language: *

Difference between two dates - the midnight hourhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/difference-between-two-dates-the-midnight-hour.html

06 April 2011 might already have something similar to this but this deserves its own article. Why? Well try to search the web for a PHP/MySQL solution which suggests on how to count the hours between two times on the same date, when one of the hours is on the other...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

21 August 2014 v9.6.03 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3128.0 What? "Quick" may not be the right word, so this is a somewhat summarized article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors and populating an OUTPUT table in the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-create-a-widget-which-uses-javascript.html

24 October 2020 This is an article documenting how to create a Zoho Creator Widget which includes the Bootstrap and jQuery frameworks as well as other JavaScript functionality. Why? Quite simply that at time of print (2020-10-24), Zoho Creator does not allow you to use...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho People: Get Performance Records over APIhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-get-performance-records-over-api.html

18 September 2025 Took us a while to find this and perhaps others would have a quicker way but here's the instructions on getting the records from the performance module in Zoho People API. Why? Cos it took us a while. The online forums seem to go back over a decade and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 but still haven't found a simple and complete example of getting a resultset from an Oracle stored procedure and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Well "non-productive" more than "fun" as most of the examples on the net are either...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Slideshow div layer through a windowhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/mootools/slideshow-div-layer-through-a-window.html

11 September 2012 incomplete! Will post a final solution but here are the basics What? This article is a quick note to myself on the idea of a slideshow with the MooTools javascript framework. Basically, I want to create a div layer that I can see through (like a window...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MooTools Framework
• Language: *

Zoho CRM: Manage a subform using Client Scripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-manage-a-subform-using-client-script.html

09 December 2022 This is an article with a snippet of code demonstrating how to manage a subform using a Zoho CRM Client Script. Why? A client wanted an automation on-the-fly that when selecting a specific value in a field, a row would be added to a subform contained...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)http://mail.joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

24 October 2014 This is an article serving as documentation for my first ever app on the Android Operating System. For tablets and phones. The app in a nutshell displays flight restrictions in a given area Description As a quadcopter flier myself, I wanted an app to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 for a client from a legacy CRM to ZohoCRM. They have a lot of files they want attached to their respective records in CRM. This took me a while as our own documentation is scatty and the online forums weren't too helpful either. How? In the example...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Change default order of weblinkshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/change-default-order-of-weblinks.html

15 November 2009 a few google searches until I could find out how to change the default weblinks order. A lot of websites showed how to do this via the admin back-end panel in the advanced configuration... I can't see this panel, there is no advanced parameters under a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Zoho CRM: Update a custom field in line items / product details using REST API v2.1http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-update-a-custom-field-in-line-items-product-details.html

17 May 2021 This is a quick article documenting how to update custom fields in a line items or product details section of a transactional module such as Quotes, Sales Orders or Invoices using code: Zoho Deluge. Why? At time of print, Zoho had recently introduced...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Prevent Endless Loops On User Input of a Fieldhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-prevent-endless-loops-on-user-input-of-a-field.html

19 September 2021 This article serves as a best practice and reminder to myself on how to stop endless loops from happening in Creator and crashing the application. This is more for complex Creator forms which have workflows triggered from many deltas/changes. Why? Some...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Inline Labels in Form Fields using Javascripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/inline-labels-in-form-fields-using-javascript.html

21 August 2012 This is to describe how to change the value of a field of a form from it's default when it is clicked on so that it auto-clears and changes to how it normally works. Example? Note the value in the below field. Now click on it and it disappears, allowing...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: JavaScript
• Language: en-GB

Upload file to Google Drive with PHP/cURL and API REST v3 (without Client Library)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/google/upload-file-to-google-drive-with-php-curl-and-api-rest-v3-without-library-install.html

29 October 2018 So this is supposed to be a quick article detailing how I used a PHP function to upload a video file to Google Drive. Note that this example does not involve installing the Google Client Library for PHP. So no classes or built-in functions that you...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge - Get English Ordinalhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-english-ordinal.html

08 November 2018 This is a very quick note with the code to determine the English ordinal of a date (eg. "st" of "1st"). So in a date, instead of "Tuesday, 6 November 2018", I could want "Tuesday 6th of November 2018". Why? Well there's a long a way to do it (but...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Button on Report for Merging Multiple Selected Recordshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-button-on-report-for-merging-multiple-selected-records.html

06 December 2020 The aim of this article is to document how you can display a Creator report to the user, that they can select (tickbox) multiple records in that report, and then have a button that loops through all the selected (ticked) records. The example below...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Order Notifications via Webhookhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-order-notifications-via-webhook.html

20 September 2021 This is an article to document how I got a client's eBay to notify the seller every time a buyer bought a fixed price item. This uses the Trading API even though I'm aiming for the Platform Notifications API... Why? A follow on from my article Zoho...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Shopify API Integration Oauth 2.0 - Update 2022 (Search by SKU GraphQL)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-api-integration-oauth-2-0-update-2022.html

14 February 2022 This is an article which is the updated version of my article Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API for 2022 using the new policy that Shopify have implemented when creating a custom app. Why? My use-case scenario here is that we have a Zoho Creator app...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *