Inserting incremental weeks in MySQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/inserting-incremental-weeks-in-mysql.html

15 April 2011 reason I'm doing this is for another system which decided to "cleverly" use the exports from CMIS Facility so that all the weeks correspond to the rest of the academic data. Unfortunately the developer wrote a system he felt would last the rest of his...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 Just a quick note to refine a function that will take a date in the past and return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Why? Here are some examples of what we want to achieve: 1 year 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours 6...

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

Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttp://mail.joellipman.com/hardware/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html

12 October 2010 them or a third party, for example ‘to pay for shipping’. The cheque will clear into your bank account, only to be refused weeks later. At this point, the bank/building society will take the full cheque amount back out of your account. This would then...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

14 January 2011 (order is which week in the month), and the Date and Note in the details (will appear in each cell per day). Grouping by weeks: Now we finish with the report wizard and returned to the designer. Right-click on the "[Order]" cell and select "Add Group"...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 asked: "how long will it take", do not say 5 minutes. This script runs on average in 15 seconds. The remaining hours, days, weeks will be spent on bringing your website up to standard with all issues addressed and sporting the latest version of the...

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

MySQL parameters in Excel 2007 PivotTableshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-parameters-in-excel-2007-pivottables.html

24 August 2011 range by default Use a WHERE clause: YEARWEEK(s.DateTimeCreated,1)=(YEARWEEK(NOW(),1)) Note the ,1 parameter is because our weeks start on Monday. Use an EXCEL PivotTable filter: Move your YEARWEEK field to the "Report Filter" section Alternative...

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

SSRS External Images don't displayhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html

19 September 2011 same Oracle PL/SQL query they used to determine whether to display an image or not. Bit of a cop-out I know but after two weeks of trying to find a solution, I would definitely recommend seeing if you can't check at the database level first. I will in...

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

MySQL: Display Users and Duration in Matrix Timesheethttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-display-users-and-duration-in-matrix-timesheet.html

27 April 2012 account') AND u.TeamID='$t_value' ORDER BY CONCAT(u.FirstName, ' ', u.LastName) "; Activity Query $w_value = $number_of_weeks_from_now; // usually 0 for this week, 1 for the week before, 2 for the week before that... $timesheet_query_per_user=" SELECT...

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

Generate a Timesheet in MySQL http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-a-timesheet-in-mysql.html

05 December 2013 and the system returns the timesheet for the week that date occurs in. How? The example below shows how to do this when your weeks being/commence on Monday. It also uses the current date in the form of NOW() but this example has to work with any given...

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

Zoho Creator: Radio group into Calendar Carouselhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-radio-group-into-calendar-carousel.html

09 March 2022 to select a particular day. Some navigation is required in the form of a left arrow and right arrow to see previous or next weeks respectively. What I have: What I want: How? This was achieved using some CSS and then some Deluge for the functionality....

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 case here is to run a schedule that will populate a list with the upcoming dates for the next week (and for any numbers of weeks thereafter). This needs to be dynamic as it is a schedule run daily checking the availability of a staff member for the...

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

Zoho Deluge: Get the Week Number if Week starts on a Mondayhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-the-week-number-if-week-starts-on-a-monday.html

06 July 2023 between .toString("y") and .toString("Y"). Lowercase 'y' is the year and uppercase 'Y' is the year the week is in. Weeks which overlap at the end/start of the year need to be observed. As per the documentation: dateValue = '29-Dec-2019'; info...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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ZohoCRM: Daily Follow Up and Remind Record Owner to Convert Leadhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-follow-up-and-remind-record-owner-to-convert-lead.html

14 May 2024 reminder to be triggered one day before the due date:TRIGGER = -P1D. Similarly, if you want the reminder to be triggered two weeks before the due date:TRIGGER= -P2W. This applies only to recurring tasks, and the trigger time is mandatory. Error:...

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

ZohoBooks: Broken UK Banking Feedhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-broken-uk-banking-feed.html

16 October 2025 be marked Inactive Summary In this case, the client’s bank account had previously been syncing correctly. After several weeks, however, the feed stopped updating, and the option to Refresh Feed was missing entirely from the Banking module. Comparing...

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• 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 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 on Sunday means this isn't very useful. I have another system which starts on Monday and ends on the...

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