Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

05 January 2011 Studio solution to connect to a MySQL database then lost my way wondering what was I trying to achieve? I've written this article because this is how I connected to a MySQL database from within the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) IDE...

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

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html

29 March 2011 Bring up the "Tablix Properties" of the dataset Look for the section "No Rows" Put in a value for "NoRowsMessage". This solution hides the entire Tablix which kinda defeats the purpose of having anything there. I want my end-users to have faith in my...

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

Joomla article modal with clear buttonhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-article-modal-with-clear-button.html

27 August 2012 to Joomla 1.6+ What? This is an article to describe how to add an article modal button in the Joomla Admin Panel (at time of print version 2.5.6) of your component including the all important clear button. What I found was that no one posted this...

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

Search a database with SOUNDEXhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 same case. Wouldn't it be nice to search through your entire database for similar sounding values (so not just case), and in this example, find typos as well, eg. "Daat ont Ety Aviable". How? Mine's a bit of a copout as it is a two-step process. I...

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

Preg_Replace all strings between two tagshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/preg-replace-all-strings-between-two-tags.html

07 February 2013 a string. Why? Because my understanding with regular expressions is shady and varies from language to language, I've written this article as a quick reference point. How? Well you use this in your PHP scripts, the examples below are meant to help but...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/hide-a-drive-per-user-in-windows-7.html

28 March 2014 to: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Looking at ways of displaying different drives per user on a single computer. This one is by modifying the system registry, so if you aren't familiar with the system registry in MS Windows, you may need to find...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

ReCaptcha alternative: Integrate PlayThru in JComments 3.0 for Joomla 3.2http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-alternative-integrate-playthru-in-jcomments-3-0-for-joomla-3-2.html

27 April 2014 to: Joomla CMS v3.2.3 (Joomla.org) jComments v3.0.0 (JoomlaTune.com) PlayThru v1.1.8 (AreYouAHuman.com) What? This article is a follow on from my article JComments 2.3 with PlayThru (Joomla 2.5.x) but this is for a later version of the components using...

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

SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sourceshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-how-to-loop-through-multiple-flat-files-as-data-sources.html

13 June 2014 This is an article to demonstrate a quick step-by-step on having an SSIS package loop through a directory/folder of files in order to populate a database table. We could add each file as a separate connection manager but this is inefficient and not...

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

AHK Countdown Tooltiphttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html

17 July 2014 the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this latest app "byeBU" and this is version 0.4 Beta (unofficial app). Why? Something to do... How? The following code is using...

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

Import Excel CSV file as JavaScript arrayhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/import-excel-csv-file-as-javascript-array.html

05 October 2015 each row and splits by commas (not within quotes) - Sorts the final array by a object label function populate_array_from_csv(this_file){ // using deprecated XMLHttpRequest to read file // (works at time of print (2015-10-05)) var xhr =...

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

Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html

14 February 2019 This is an article to remind me how to search a column in an Excel file for values found in another column (in this example, on another worksheet in the same workbook). How? So for demonstration purposes, I'm using a new Excel file with two worksheets...

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

Convert Past Date to Time Ago in PHPhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-past-date-to-time-ago-in-php.html

16 May 2019 // where event is just over 1 week ago but less than 2 weeks ago How? I know there are so many examples out there that do this perhaps better but this one I understand and can customize to fit my needs. This PHP function accepts as parameter a SQL date...

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

CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transitionhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-add-text-to-breadcrumb-link-with-a-transition.html

18 May 2019 This is an article I hope to refine one day where given a set of breadcrumb hyperlinks, when I hover the mouse over the links, the text changes and the transition between the two is controlled smoothly. Why? At time of print, I couldn't find any clear...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Duplicate/Clone a Recordhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-duplicate-clone-a-record.html

17 March 2020 This is an article with the snippet of code required to duplicate or clone a record in Zoho CRM using Zoho Deluge. Why? The aim here is to have a scheduled task that on the 1st of every month, takes the invoices for the month before, and duplicates each...

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

Zoho CRM: Standard Setup for Tax Rateshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-standard-tax-rate-setup.html

02 September 2021 This is an article for training purposes. I'm pretty sure there is official documentation on how to do this but I thought I'd write this article to make it simpler for new developers to follow and learn as a quick point of reference. Why? Some clients...

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

Zoho Deluge: Text (SMS) reminder using Twilio API (LocalSense)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-text-sms-using-twilio-api-localsense.html

16 December 2021 // // using the account SID you obtained in the steps above v_Account_SID = "ABCDEFabcdef0123456789ABCDEFabcdef"; // // set this to the authtoken value obtained earlier v_Auth_Token = "1234567890aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeff"; // // set this to your Twilio...

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

Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 Inventory that when an invoice is marked as paid, update 2 custom fields with the Payment Method, and the Payment Date. Why? This was requested by a customer and the problem happened in that the workflow would simply not trigger when the invoice was...

• 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 in my opinion on how to send a CRM quote record using a template the customer created from a button. Why? Yes you can do this already by going to the record, clicking on the ellipsis or three horizontal dots button in the top right and selecting "Send...

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

Zoho Creator: Disable/Hide the add and delete subform row buttonshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-disable-hide-the-add-and-delete-subform-row-options.html

28 February 2023 A really quick article on how to hide these using CSS... at least until Zoho have this as a setting using the GUI. Why? Our use-case is that we have a subform which gets autopopulated with a list of services. The client does not want their operations...

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

ZohoCRM: Integrate ChatGPT to ZohoZIAhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-integrate-chatgpt-to-zohozia.html

06 March 2023 Following on from the article: Zoho Cliq: Integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo. This is the next step as we get it to look at data within ZohoCRM. Why? Because it is a serious improvement upon ZohoZIA and we get a lot of requests around customizing...

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