ZohoCreator: Basic Widget with Zoho Datahttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-basic-widget-with-zoho-data.html

14 March 2024 What? A follow on from my article Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScript back from 2020 with a few adjustments now in 2024. This widget will only work within Zoho Creator. If you want a solution which sits on an external website and which...

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

ZohoCreator: Using .toFile and Uploading to a Creator fieldhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-using-tofile-and-uploading-to-a-creator-field.html

25 March 2024 What? This is a quick article on generating a file with the Zoho Deluge function .toFile() and uploading it to a file upload field within Zoho Creator. Why? The use-case here is that we want a file to be hosted within Zoho Creator for use by a JS widget...

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

Zoho Deluge and Wordpress/WooCommerce API: Get All Productshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-and-wordpress-woocommerce-api-get-all-products.html

15 April 2024 What? A quick article on retrieving all the products from a WooCommerce instance on a client's Wordpress website. Why? A client of ours wants the information entered against products in their WooCommerce to display on their estimates in Zoho Books; such...

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

Zoho Creator: Render to PDF with margins and page numbershttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-render-to-pdf-with-margins-and-page-numbers.html

07 May 2024 What? There are already articles out there that document this but I use this more and more and would rather just find it on my site than going through multiple bookmarks. Why? This use-case is for a customer who simply wanted a quote template to be...

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

Reminder on SSRS row separatorhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/reminder-on-ssrs-row-seperator.html

26 October 2011 Setup XP SP3 Workstation Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) What do I want? I have a report displaying room bookings. Each row lists the day, date, room name, start/finish times, booking...

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

Strip HTML in MySQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/strip-html-in-mysql.html

06 December 2011 putting a note as I have spent ages looking for a solution and getting it to work in my environment. What? Need to be able to omit HTML tags in certain fields of a mySQL database. Why? We are preparing to migrate old content to a new system. From a...

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

MediaWiki: MySQL to extract path to imageshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/mediawiki-mysql-to-extract-path-to-images.html

06 December 2011 What? In not as many words as others, here's my MySQL query to extract details on images stored in the MediaWiki CMS system (v1.14). Why? Prior to a migration and just after another change freeze, I had sent all Wiki articles modified since the last...

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

Convert seconds to total time in PHPhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-seconds-to-total-time-in-php.html

31 January 2012 What? This is intended for activity/session durations and although I usually get MySQL to do the date/time calculations, there are times when we have to do with PHP. This is the shortest way I know to properly convert seconds into total hours, minutes...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Books / Inventory: Get Item Rate from a Price Book/Listhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-get-item-rate-from-a-price-book-list.html

23 May 2024 What? A quick article on how to get the pricebook entry using Zoho Deluge for a specific product in your ZohoBooks or ZohoInventory instance. Why? This took me the best part of an hour to determine by going through forum posts from 7 years to 2 years...

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

Zoho Analytics & Zoho People: Monitor DataSource Sync http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-zoho-people-monitor-datasource-sync.html

02 July 2024 What? A quick article on how to setup an automation that checks if a datasource synchronization between Zoho People and Zoho Analytics failed. This can be adapted to any data source for Zoho Analytics. Why? We're assisting a client implement Zoho People...

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

Zoho Workdrive: Getting Team Folder IDhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-workdrive-getting-team-folder-id.html

11 September 2024 What? This is an article to document how to get your team folder ID, retrieve information about it, and upload to it via the API. Why? The documentation is there but making sense of it, is somewhat difficult, at least for me. How? So when I was trying...

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

ZohoCRM: Make either Mobile or Email mandatoryhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-make-either-mobile-or-email-mandatory.html

03 October 2024 What? A really quick article on a pretty cool requirement, making 2 fields mandatory but if one is completed then making the other optional. Why? My use-case is that the mobile or email field on a Zoho CRM contact record is used to authenticate the...

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

Zoho Deluge: Convert Hex to RGBhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-hex-to-rgb.html

11 October 2024 What? A quick article to document a Zoho Deluge function converting a hexadecimal color reference to a Red Green Blue value (RGB). Why? It's likely that Zoho will avail their color picker at some point as an input but at the time of print, this hasn't...

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

Zoho Deluge: Using Remove Key on a Map and Copying Record Tagshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-using-remove-key-on-a-map.html

03 March 2025 What? A quick article on how to use remove() on a map variable as well as a snippet of code to copy tags from a contact to a deal record. Why? Anything that stumps me for 30 minutes is worth writing a quick article on. In this case, I had a function...

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

ZohoDeluge: eBay marketplace account deletion/closure notificationshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-ebay-marketplace-account-deletion-closure-notifications.html

13 March 2025 What? eBay allows users to request the deletion of their personal data from eBay's own systems, as well as from the systems of all partners who store or display that data, including third-party developers integrated with eBay APIs through the eBay...

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

MySQL day of week ending on Fridayhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-day-of-week-ending-on-friday.html

26 April 2012 What? Week Ending Date has been requested a lot more frequently now. It's an odd one but the example below shows how to do this for when the week ends on Friday. Assuming it starts on the previous Saturday. Why? Problems with MySQL weeks always starting...

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

Mootools - How to contain a menu sidebar between header and footerhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/mootools/mootools-how-to-contain-a-menu-sidebar-between-header-and-footer.html

10 August 2012 too much so I decided to work out my own. The complexity is due to content also being dynamically resized in height. What? Basically I have a menu in a sidebar, I don't want it to overlap the header nor the footer.I have a content page next to it which...

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

DBMS Random Referencehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/dbms-random-reference.html

21 August 2012 What? How to use the randomization features of Oracle PL/SQL. Why? I've been tasked with writing a stored procedure that scrambles data for developers working with some of our databases containing sensitive data. How? SELECT...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: *

Convert a delimited string to tablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/convert-a-delimited-string-to-table.html

26 October 2012 What? This is a quick note to show you how to convert a given comma delimited string into a database table: Given: "Title,Forenames,Surname" Return: ID Value ------ ---------------- 1 Title 2 Forenames 3 Surname Note the below example omits the ID...

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

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

20 March 2025 What? A frustrated article about an issue that took me a fair few hours to resolve. So I'm putting it here as I thought I covered this previously but couldn't find it on my website. This was previously titled something along the lines of truncating to 2...

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