Zoho Inventory: Mark a package slip as delivered and shippedhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-mark-a-package-slip-as-delivered-and-shipped.html

14 July 2022 article on a code snippet to mark a package as shipped and delivered in Zoho Inventory. Why? As usual, any task like this that takes me longer than an hour, I'd like to document for future use. The use-case is the client has their own delivery drivers...

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

Zoho CRM / Deluge: Send an email with a CRM Quote using a given CRM templatehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-send-an-email-with-a-crm-quote-using-a-given-crm-template.html

18 August 2022 selecting which inventory template to use... This is too many steps for some. Instead, we've been asked to create a button that sits on the view page of a record and the staff simply click on and it does all the aforementioned. How? The difficult part...

• 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 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 herein. How? Well I won't go in to...

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

ZohoDeluge: Inserting a new line character in a CSVhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-inserting-a-new-line-character-in-a-csv.html

01 March 2023 A super quick article on something that almost deserves its own article: using new lines in ZohoDeluge. Why? My use-case here is that I was generating a comma separated values (CSV) file given some lists and strings and although the same code worked...

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

ZohoAnalytics: Pivot Campaigns vs Contactshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoanalytics-pivot-campaigns-vs-contacts.html

20 March 2023 Joel Google Ads Accepted Invited Sent Me Web Invited Accepted Sent Myself Walk-In Accepted Sent Invited The catch is that our campaign names are in data rows not individual columns. How? There may be ways of doing this using the GUI and a "Pivot View"...

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

Zoho Deluge: Determine if Daylight Savings are in effecthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-if-daylight-savings-are-in-effect.html

03 July 2023 If you're lucky enough to build an application for a client based in a country that changes its clocks twice a year, then I'm opening this article without a 100% certain solution as I need to wait about 4 months until I can confirm this works. Why? I've...

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

Zoho CRM: ZDK Client Script: Auto-Select Pipeline based on User Departmenthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zdk-client-script-auto-select-pipeline-based-on-user-department.html

16 October 2023 the pipeline on deal creation within CRM based on the department specified on a user's profile. Why? A client asked that when staff create a deal/opportunity record in CRM, the pipeline is automatically pre-selected based on the user. How? So there's a...

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

Zoho Deluge: Determine your Statement Execution Limithttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-your-statement-execution-limit.html

31 July 2024 on how to check what the statement execution limit is on the Zoho application you are working in. Why? Our use-case is that an application we built in Zoho Creator was hitting statement execution limits and rather than proposing an upgrade or add-on to...

• 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 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 happened yet. Here's a...

• 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 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 Developers Program. To help third-party...

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

404: Page Not Foundhttp://mail.joellipman.com/static-items/404.html

11 February 2015 Sorry, but the content you requested could not be found. It is possible that you have followed an out-of-date link or incorrectly typed an address. We have revamped this website as of September 2015 and tidied up some of our URLs. Some sections will...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Joomla: Unable to find install packagehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-unable-to-find-install-package.html

05 September 2009 This issue happened with a friend who was trying to upload extensions. You should find that the configuration file is unwriteable (and that you can't change it using the joomla interface). In the end to resolve this, he had to do a fresh install and...

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

Prices get rounded up in Virtuemarthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/ecommerce/virtuemart/prices-get-rounded-up-in-virtuemart.html

27 September 2009 This happened to a m8s website in VirtueMart 1.1.3. The issue here was that although all the prices lost their float/decimal and were rounded up to the nearest integer... At first we thought this was due to installing a Virtuemart UK Credit Card...

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

Joomla banners not rotatinghttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-banners-not-rotating.html

20 October 2009 The issue here is that you have added all your banners, divided between clients and categories and you're looking for a solution which doesn't involve installing a 3rd party applicatoin. Unfortunately the Joomla banner module only supports alternating...

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

Added a Launcher and Unduplicaterhttp://mail.joellipman.com/component/content/article/added-a-launcher-and-unduplicater.html?catid=87

19 May 2010 Just a note to say that I've added two more programs which I regularly use to my download section on this website. As always, these are free to download and include the source codes under the GNU/GPL License v3. If you have autohotkey installed, you...

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

Invalid arguments passed in router.php on line 325http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/invalid-arguments-passed-in-routerphp-on-line-325.html

03 August 2010 and secondly because my solution is a "cowboy fix" rather than the other intelligent solutions on the web. The issue was that I was building my first Joomla 1.5 component and getting the below error if I put in a menu: Warning: implode()...

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

Welcome to my website!http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/welcome-to-my-website.html

19 March 2011 and/or bespoke systems which have little or no documentation. I like workarounds and solutions and persist in the knowledge that anything is possible, I only have to believe. I tend to write about issues that the rest of the crowd so easily give up on....

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

MySQL Oracle equivalentshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql-oracle-equivalents.html

27 September 2010 title of this article implies something rather odd and upcoming considering that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL and Oracle bought Sun. But in fact, this is just a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle: Objective MySQL Oracle...

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

SSRS Expand specific drilldown by defaulthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-expand-specific-drilldown-by-default.html

23 February 2011 2008 and creating a report in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or MS Report Builder. Scenario I have a report that specifies some room bookings for a particular week. When I open the report, each drilldown row is collapsed (as opposed to...

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

Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html

05 April 2011 of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter (ToDate) is the same as the first (FromDate), then the range is for that particular date. Solution Easy for some but anything that I spend 30 minutes googling and reading up on is asking for an...

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