Joes Search Module (JSM)http://mail.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-search-module-jsm.html?catid=40

09 March 2015 This article serves as documentation for a Joomla extension I have released which is a copy of the built-in Joomla Search module but with the parameters embedded (set in the administration section). Why? A client has a repository of PDF documents that...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 This is an article explaining the code needed to write a PHP script which generates an access token for a service account which in turn is used to list files in a team's Google Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended: Google...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• 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 to multiply two ranges together (must be the same size) and return the total of these results. -- is a double hyphen/dash which converts a boolean true to 1 and boolean false to 0. IsNumber( is a function returning a boolean. Returns false if a cell...

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

CSS Printing - Page Break Inside with Headers and Footershttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-printing-page-break-inside-with-headers-and-footers.html

22 February 2019 I saw a lot of articles that would cover this but I wanted an example which includes headers and footers and how to get an automatic page-break-inside to not overlap these. Fine on screen but this is obviously for when it comes to printing. Why? I...

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

URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

06 May 2019 "$2", trim($v_Output, "_")); // returns a string return $v_Output; } and the MySQL is a trigger which executes before the record is inserted and increments the value of url_alias: DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS incrementUrlAlias; DELIMITER | CREATE TRIGGER...

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

AutoHotkey - MS Windows 10 - Open Apps on Multiple Monitors and Desktopshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-ms-windows-10-open-apps-on-multiple-monitors-and-desktops.html

18 July 2019 into the one desktop. If you have a multiple monitor setup (ie. more than 1 monitor), then MS Windows will almost remember which apps were open on which screen but always on Desktop 1. In addition, there are some developments on AutoHotkey forums where...

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

Zoho Creator: Retrieve record with case-insensitive queryhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-retrieve-record-with-case-insensitive.html

21 November 2019 ... Lastly, there is a function I find myself using more and more called equalsIgnoreCase() which could be used:... l_ProductDetails = Product[Product_Name.equalsIgnoreCase(v_Name)];... Other Functions of Interest contains case-sensitive search, can...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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AutoHotkey: Get Media Information and Displayhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-get-media-information-and-display.html

07 August 2020 on MS Windows 7 (32-bit) for this particular app. For this reason, we are going to use a function by Skan called Filexpro() which is copied in the below: Filexpro( sFile := "", Kind := "", P* ) { ; v.90 By SKAN on D1CC @ goo.gl/jyXFo9 Local Static...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Zoho Deluge: Search Records with Special Characters (COQL)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-search-records-with-special-characters-coql.html

28 August 2020 the ampersand with its unicode equivalent. I consider myself familiar with Transact-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL and MySQL all of which have various ways of escaping the ampersand (except for MySQL which doesn't need to and in my opinion is the best SQL)....

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

Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTIONhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/expecting-zc_subform_250-expression-found-collection.html

19 October 2020 migration, I was using a custom function to copy all the data from one app to another. The specific form was for "Leads" which contained a subform with a product line item list. If I run this code, I would get the error: Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250...

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

Zoho Creator: Button on Report for Merging Multiple Selected Recordshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-button-on-report-for-merging-multiple-selected-records.html

06 December 2020 of what kind of records I am sending as parameters (in this case "Quotes"). As the actual parameter value, select the form which is the singular of the records that you are sending (in my example here I have a form called "Partners Quote". Within your...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM: Mapping a Multi-User or Multi-Lookup field using Delugehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-mapping-a-multi-user-or-multi-lookup-field-using-deluge.html

28 April 2021 an "X" and then the name of the linked module. A module called "Opportunities_X_Products" is likely to be a linking module which has a multi-select lookup on both the deal/opportunity and products module. A multi-user lookup will tend to have something...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Projects: Add a Time Log to an Issue using Delugehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-add-a-time-log-to-an-issue-using-deluge.html

30 April 2021 not find a working example that could allow us to do this. I have provided some links at the end of this article for you which we tried to use but only helped us out about half-way, the rest we guessed on our own: Our use case, is that we are developing...

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

Zoho CRM REST API: Stop Workflow from Triggeringhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-rest-api-stop-workflow-from-triggering.html

16 June 2021 show you how to configure triggers when using createRecord or updateRecord. Why? We had a Creator app updating a CRM record which in turn had a workflow to update the Stage in Creator (so a user can change the stage in CRM and it would reflect this in...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Receive JSON via a Shopify Webhookhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-json-via-a-shopify-webhook.html

15 July 2021 we'll create the Shopify webhook. One alternative that is proposed below is that we are going to use a CRM REST API function which arguably could write directly to the Creator record, parsing the JSON webhook response beforehand. 1. Set up the Creator...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Public URL of an Image field / Upload to Shopify APIhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-public-url-of-an-image-field-upload-to-shopify-api.html

17 October 2021 Zoho Creator (see "Sources" below), the most relevant one being my article Zoho Deluge: Get Image Uploaded in Creator Form which has one method of getting a public link. My use-case scenario here is that while I could upload the link from Creator to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM & Zoho Writer: Button to Merge Template, Send, and Attachhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-writer-button-to-merge-template,-send,-and-attach.html

21 October 2021 it to the CRM record. Why? Our use-case is that we have a client who has to go to the CRM record, click on Mail Merge, which opens Writer, then has to click on various settings and run the Mail Merge; then has to click on "execute function after merge"...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge: Today, Tomorrow, Day After but Skip Sundayhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-today,-tomorrow,-day-after-but-skip-sunday.html

02 November 2021 and the day after's but it has to skip Sundays. Why? Wanting to create a schedule for availability over the next few days which needs to dynamically change. I am aware of the function .addBusinessDay() but that excludes Saturdays which my client still...

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

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 via a Shopify Webhook This time, the objective is to have an eBay notification be sent to Zoho CRM (can receive webhooks) which forwards it to Zoho Creator, which in turn generates an order in Shopify. This article is primarily for myself as I need to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 options from being selected based on the profile of a user. Why? There were several alternatives we considered beforehand which still didn't fit the requirement: A client's first-line agents would have a lead record with the status "New Lead". The...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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