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1. Zoho CRM: Get Unique Values of a Text Field: / Zoho /; What? This article demonstrates how to return a list of unique values in a particular field in a CRM module. Why? My use-case is a data-migration where the records exist in a staging module in ...; Created on 08 October 2021
2. Zoho Deluge: Push a value to a datetime field in CRM: / Zoho /; What? A very quick article to show pushing the date and time to ZohoCRM or ZohoCreator. Why? You may have received an error that goes something like: datatype: datetime How? Here are ...; Created on 10 September 2021
3. Zoho Creator: Assign an integration field value with an integration value: / Zoho /; What? This is a quick article to help anyone encountering this gotcha: I have an integration field, if someone changes it, I want to save the value to the record immediately. Why? If you try to ...; Created on 27 July 2021
4. Excel - Check a column for values found in another column: / Excel /; What? 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 ...; Created on 14 February 2019
5. Trim values along with the tab: / MySQL /; What? A quick article on how to trim in MySQL along with getting rid of any leading or trailing tab characters. Why? I use MS Excel for organizing data and then converting to MySQL commands. ...; Created on 13 June 2016
6. Sort an associative array by values in Javascript: / JavaScript /; What? An article on how to quickly adapt an array code and sort by its values. Surprising how many examples are on the web and everyone saying you're doing it wrong... Which is true but quite unhelpful. ...; Created on 29 September 2015
7. T-SQL: Parse an XML value: / Transact-SQL /; What? This took me a while to find so I've posted an article below detailing how to parse or extract values from a string containing XML code. Why? I'm working with a system which stores XML strings ...; Created on 27 March 2014
8. Excel: Find values in one column that are not in another: / Excel /; What? A quick note on how to compare two columns for values that are not found in another. I have a column with old values, and now that I have a new list, I want a quick way to see what values are ...; Created on 06 March 2014
9. Split a row into multiple rows based on a column value: / Transact-SQL /; Applies to Transact-SQL (T-SQL) What? This is a quick article on how to split a single row into multipe rows based on the value of a column in the same table. Why? I have a table that ...; Created on 23 August 2013
10. Search a database for a value and count matching rows: / Databases /; What? We have a datawarehouse and we want to be able to count all the records in any table of the database that match on a particular warehouse load. This is a column value where the column is called ...; Created on 05 November 2012
11. Stored Procedure to List Distinct Values and Counts: / Transact-SQL /; ... columns. How? IF OBJECT_ID('usp_ListDistinctValuesAndCounts', 'P') IS NOT NULL DROP PROCEDURE [usp_ListDistinctValuesAndCounts]; GO CREATE PROCEDURE [usp_ListDistinctValuesAndCounts] ( ...; Created on 26 October 2012
12. DataJumble - Shuffling characters in a data value: / Transact-SQL /; ... the following view to generate random numbers on SQL Server. -- Used to reference RAND with in a function CREATE VIEW dbo.vwRandom AS SELECT RAND() as RandomValue; GO The Function Again ...; Created on 01 August 2012
13. Select unique values in Microsoft Excel column: / Excel /; ... This returns the number of unique values in the range A3 to A1000 and excludes the blank/empty cells. Display all Unique Found this note on one of Microsoft Help sites: Office 2010: Select the ...; Created on 03 July 2012
14. Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset values: / SQL Server Reporting Services /; ... want to use these datasets, parameter options should be that the Name is the "Label" and ItemID is the "Value", just in case you didn't pick up on this. If no type is specified (type=2) then datasources ...; Created on 02 December 2011
15. Zoho Creator: Copy Subform to other Subforms: / Zoho /; ... Source(s): Zoho Creator/Deluge: Insert rows in Subform Quick refresher: // declaring the row = .(); // assigning values for various subform fields in the row . = ; . = ; // declaring ...; Created on 17 November 2021
16. Zoho CRM & Deluge: Adding 10 minutes to a CRM Date Time field: / Zoho /; What? I already have an article documenting Pushing a value to a datetime field in CRM but wanted another article here to remind me of the Deluge code I need to add/subtract time. Why? Just want ...; Created on 11 November 2021
17. Zoho Deluge: Generate List of TimeZones: / Zoho /; ... HTML tags: l_TimeZones = List(); for each v_TimeZoneOption in l_TimeZoneOptions { v_TimeZone = v_TimeZoneOption.replaceAll("",""); // replace any commas in the value (for list conversion later ...; Created on 19 October 2021
18. Zoho Creator / eBay: Get all Active Products: / Zoho /; What? This is an article to document a function used in Zoho Creator to retrieve the Product IDs of all the active products in a client's eBay store. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to retrieve ...; Created on 13 October 2021
19. Zoho Creator: Prevent Endless Loops On User Input of a Field: / Zoho /; ... triggers an workflow/automation, even if the value has not changed, to modify another field and vice-versa. This can get more complex when there are a lot of fields in the mix. How? I'm using this ...; Created on 19 September 2021
20. ZohoCRM: Deluge: Map a custom field from user profile: / Zoho /; ... Opportunity/Deal/Potential record details, then get the Owner frrom the CRM users table, find the value of the custom field and search for this (if it is a lookup to a module - only returns as string), ...; Created on 01 September 2021