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Zoho Deluge: Push Multi-Select Picklist containing Commas from CRM to Creator

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 20 April 2020; Hits: 15060

What?
A very quick article on how to push a multi-select picklist from CRM to Creator.

Why?
We're trying to create a record in Creator off a button on the CRM Potential/Deal record. The CRM module has a multi-select picklist which will use commas to delimit but one of the options has a comma in its value.

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// What I have in CRM:
{"My_MultiPicklist":["Option1","Options 2, 3"]}

// What Creator understands: FAILS
{"My_MultiPicklist":["["Option1","Options 2, 3"]"]}

// What I have in CRM:
{"My_MultiPicklist":["Option1","Options 2, 3"]}
// What Creator understands: FAILS
{"My_MultiPicklist":["["Option1","Options 2, 3"]"]}

With workaround .toString()

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// What Creator understands: FAILS
{"My_MultiPicklist":["Option1","Options 2"," 3"]}

// What Creator understands: FAILS
{"My_MultiPicklist":["Option1","Options 2"," 3"]}

How?
So the way to push this value over to Creator is by converting the list to a string... notably comma delimited:

Category: Zoho :: Article: 719

: Joel Lipman; Joomla; 11 April 2020; Hits: 5515

What?
This article is a quick note on how to change your Joomla CMS "Read More" to "Register to Read More" all without hacking away at the Joomla core.

Why?
Well a few hacks may be necessary because not only do we want to restrict read more content (full text) and just show intro texts to public but the default Joomla instructions do not include the search engine. I need the Joomla built-in search engine to also ignore permissions so that the article can still be indexed in global search engines such as Google.

How?
It's been difficult to search for the right words but heres the method to restrict the introtext to the public and fulltext (read more) to the registered users:

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 28 March 2020; Hits: 12203

What?
This is an article to document a standalone function which generates an access token from within Zoho CRM so you can access your Xero instance. There are 3rd-party API libraries and SDKs out there but as usual with financial technologies (fintech), I don't trust them. Here's how to do it in pure Deluge with a Zoho CRM custom function.

Why?
It is quite a common request so I'm using this article to refine a generic method of connecting to any client's Xero. The aim is to have a function that initializes a valid connection and then append code to do what we want to do in Xero such as synchronizing invoices or contacts.

How?
So the key thing to remember here is that a Refresh Token in Xero expires immediately after use. You use a Refresh Token to generate a new Access Token which can be reused over the next 30 minutes. In the response, you will also get a new Refresh Token which you should store away for later use when you want to generate a new Access Token.

Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 24 March 2020; Hits: 2049

What?
The following is a script template that I can quickly adapt for Zoho and Shopify integration. This will take an item from Zoho Inventory and post it to Shopify.

How?
Pretty quick to do in Zoho Deluge but first you need to go register the app in your client's Shopify store:

Zoho Deluge: Duplicate/Clone a Record

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 17 March 2020; Hits: 11551

What?
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 one for the new month.

How?
First you have to get all the applicable fields from the settings API.

: Joel Lipman; Joomla; 14 March 2020; Hits: 2853

Applies to

Joomla! CMS v3.5.x

What?
This is a short article on how to remove the ID numbers from your Joomla website addresses for search engine friendly URLs.

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// What I have
www.joellipman.com/index.php?option=com_content&category_id=4&article_id=123-article-alias

// With URL rewriting enabled
www.joellipman.com/index.php/4-category-alias/123-article-alias.html

// What I want
www.joellipman.com/category-alias/article-alias.html

// What I have
www.joellipman.com/index.php?option=com_content&category_id=4&article_id=123-article-alias
// With URL rewriting enabled
www.joellipman.com/index.php/4-category-alias/123-article-alias.html
// What I want
www.joellipman.com/category-alias/article-alias.html

How?
You could buy an SEF extension that does this for you or spend time tweaking your .htaccess file. Or you can take advantage of a Joomla update and do this without any coding...

Category: Joomla :: Article: 711

: Joel Lipman; Joomla; 13 March 2020; Hits: 18066

What?
During a site upgrade, the commenting extension for Joomla called JComments would return errors when using PHP version 7. This is a quick article to document what needed doing to fix the errors.

How?

: Joel Lipman; MySQL; 12 March 2020; Hits: 6272

What?
This is an article to document how to output the most frequently used words in a MySQL database column.

How?
Note this only applies to MySQL.

Zoho Deluge: Associate/Link an Invoice to a Sales Order

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 10 March 2020; Hits: 7137

What?
This is an article because there was no documentation that I could find that describes how to do this. When an invoice is created, not by clicking on the "convert sales order to invoice" button, I needed a way to programmatically link the sales order to the invoice.

Zoho Deluge: Associate Sales Order to Invoice

Why?
The documentation around the API does not detail how to do this. I also couldn't find any search result via Google or DuckDuckGo (can't say for Bing, I never get around to searching that). This took several hours but it is possible, I was just about to give up even after having spoken to Zoho Support... And then I started updating multiple fields at the same time.

How?
Through sweat and perseverance.

Books , Deluge , Zoho

Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to URL Parameters

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 09 March 2020; Hits: 4696

What?
A quick article on converting a Map (associative array with keys and values) into a URL string to pass as URL parameters.

How?
Let's first define a map:

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 07 February 2020; Hits: 4368

What?
There may be other articles out there documenting this but I can't keep trying to find these in Google so referring to my own website, this is a doddle for me to find each time.

Why?
I have to do this so often that it deserves an article. Though writing a whole page for this is probably unwarranted so I may rename this article later to common things I need to do in Zoho Deluge.

How?
So going through the forums you may find the following example:

: Joel Lipman; Zoho; 06 February 2020; Hits: 6278

What?
A quick article on how to debug some errors in Zoho.

Why?
I wanted a general note to list certain errors that we get when we do certain things in Zoho but didn't want to write a separate page for each minor issue.

How?
So I'm going to try and list solutions to minor errors we run into.

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