Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Notification and Create Shopify Orderhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-notification-and-create-shopify-order.html

21 January 2022 What? This is an article documenting how to parse the notification from eBay and using it to create an order in Shopify. Why? Previously, we would receive an eBay notification and create an order record in Zoho Creator. We did the same for when Shopify...

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

Zoho Creator: eBay: Get Item Transactionhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-ebay-get-item-transaction.html

22 January 2022 What? This is the function to get the line item order/transaction from eBay if you give it the eBay Item ID as a parameter. Why? Mostly for debugging but here's the code that will quickly get the XML of a GetItemTransactions request to eBay. How? You'll...

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

Zoho Deluge: a HTML Entity Decoderhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-a-html-entity-decoder.html

27 January 2022 What? A very quick article to document a HTML Entity decoder in Zoho Creator. Why? Sometimes when receiving data from a third-party, we may receive some strings containing "&" or " " and obviously want to display these as decoded HTML entities....

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

Zoho CRM: Template: Empty Space between Header and Line Itemshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-template-empty-space-between-header-and-line-items.html

03 February 2022 What? A very quick article on how to deal with an issue where a CRM template has been used and where the table of line items appears on a separate page (and to remind me of the CSS to fix this). Why? By default / out-of-the-box / vanilla, in a Zoho CRM...

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

Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 What? A very quick article on a cool snippet of code, another regular expression, I've been trying out to round up a number or at least to remove the trailing zeros. I could have added this to my Zoho Deluge - Some Useful Regular Expressions list but I...

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

Zoho CRM: searchRecords with sorted resultshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-searchrecords-with-sorted-results.html

10 February 2022 What? This is an article to document how to use the searchRecords function in CRM and to sort the results response. Why? This is unclear and not always working as coded below since each system (CRM, Creator, Books) seems to interpret this sorting...

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

Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 What? So this is a pretty cool feature in Zoho CRM that I hadn't used much but definitely worth an article. The ability to block field picklist options from being selected based on the profile of a user. Why? There were several alternatives we...

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

Zoho Creator: Embed Forms/Reports on a Pagehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-embed-forms-reports-on-a-page.html

05 May 2022 What? Well known by most but this serves as a quick reminder to myself and anyone else on how to embed a form or a report into a Zoho Creator page. Why? Cos How? The below is a template snippet for a Zoho Creator page. We set the parameters of the...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Inventory: Upload Image to Item Record using Delugehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-inventory-upload-image-to-item-record.html

21 June 2022 What? A quick article on how to upload an image to the product/item listing in Zoho Inventory. Why? We're enhancing the out-of-the-box integration from eBay to Zoho Inventory bespoke for a customer. We want the photo on eBay to be downloaded and...

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

Zoho Desk: Re-enable Desktop Notifications after clicking on "Not Now"http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-desk-re-enable-desktop-notifications-after-clicking-on-not-now.html

20 July 2022 What? This is a quick article to re-enable desktop notifications after having been prompted initially and having clicked on "Not Now". Why? I'm not sure when this prompt is supposed to prompt you again. A client of ours had accidentally clicked on "Not...

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

ZohoFlow & ZohoSign: Retrieve a Zoho Sign document request and add attachments to CRM recordhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoflow-zohosign-retrieve-a-zoho-sign-document-request-and-add-attachments-to-crm-record.html

17 October 2022 What? This is an article describing a custom function built into Zoho Flow that will accept as parameter the document_id and request_id. It then retrieves the Deal Reference (entered by an office signee) on the ZohoSign document and searches for the...

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

Zoho Recruit: Rollup Number of Recruit Candidates to CRM Accounthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-recruit-rollup-number-of-recruit-candidates-to-crm-account.html

19 October 2022 What? This is a quick article to note down some code used in Zoho Recruit. This particular bit of code will run on a workflow when a Candidate is modified, and it tallies all the candidates belonging to the same school and updates some number fields on...

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

Search and Replace in a MySQL Databasehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/search-and-replace-in-a-mysql-database.html

17 March 2010 until someone comes along and says why are you doing it like that? My justification is that the job has to be done no matter what. If you've ever sat there with phpMyAdmin or a MySQL Administration Tool (like Navicat or SQLYog), and still there at night...

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

Zoho Deluge: Generate a loop or list of any sizehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-a-list-of-any-size.html

21 October 2022 What? This is an article on a trick I picked up from one of our interviewees as well as apparently in one of the Zoho documentation manuals. It uses leftpad to create a string of a length, converts it to a list, then lets you generate an array or list...

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

Zoho Analytics: Set Up a Widget Displaying Sales Personhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-set-up-widget-displaying-sales-person.html

24 October 2022 What? A quick article to display a value in a column in a widget in Zoho Analytics. Why? Because I keep forgetting how to do it. How? I've done this for a query that amalgamated all the deals against a deal owner and needed to repeat this for all the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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 What? 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...

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

Zoho Deluge: Shopify API: Get all active products with GraphQL and Paginationhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-shopify-api-get-all-active-products-with-graphql-and-pagination.html

20 February 2023 What? An article to resolve my frustration in being able to ONLY retrieve the first 100 products using GraphQL, so page 1 of Shopify products. Why? Our use-case is that we retrieve the 100 most recently modified products at the end of each day and run...

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

ZohoDeluge: Get All eBay Orders Given a From and Till Datehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-get-all-ebay-orders-given-a-from-and-till-date.html

28 February 2023 What? An article on how I can query all the orders for yesterday without using the eBay GUI Selling website. I've included the code to parse out the information as well. Why? Because I need this function too often either for debugging/monitoring...

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

ZohoBooks: Stripe Terminal Integrationhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-stripe-terminal-integration.html

16 March 2023 What? A quick article on some code added to a button in ZohoBooks off the invoice module to initiate your Stripe terminal to take a payment. Why? Just to make it easy on the staff at a counter or on the phone. They bring up the invoie in ZohoBooks,...

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

ZohoCRM: Get Organization Business Hours using Deluge/APIhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-organization-business-hours-via-deluge-api.html

28 March 2023 What? A super quick article on getting the business hours set in ZohoCRM. Why? When creating a booking system in ZohoCreator, I want to enter the default working shift for an employee either existing or that has been added to the system based on the...

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