JOEL LIPMAN Systems / Automation / AI

Knowledge base / Since 1999

Scripts, systems & field notes.

Practical solutions and technical notes from CRM platforms, workflow automation, APIs, databases and the systems around them.

192 entries / matching Images

Clear filters
CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbars
Cascading Stylesheets 31326

CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbars

Quick note in case I spend as long as I did again. A Client had some clouds on the background of his photoshop file for his website. They were to be positioned in the top right corner with the leftmost tip aligned to the right of a central content section. I separated off the clouds as another div layer, specified the...

Read note
SSRS Hide results table if empty
SQL Server Reporting Services 92536

SSRS Hide results table if empty

Update August 2011 So I don't know how many people were just saying why don't you do the following: 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...

Read note
SSRS - Lost window with datasets
SQL Server Reporting Services 35257

SSRS - Lost window with datasets

Re: Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Often happens to me and not sure why. You open the project and the window panel for the Report Data containing the parameters and datasets isn't there. I spent a bit of time enabling/disabling toolbars before I found this. Open a Report solution (or have one open alread...

Read note
Border settings not saving in SSRS
SQL Server Reporting Services 41266

Border settings not saving in SSRS

This may sound silly to some but I've written a note because I spent time googling and still didn't find an answer. My situation is that I wanted to put an expression to format the border (empty cells have a border and non-empty don't). This was so that a grid would show for empty spaces. I wasn't getting very far beca...

Read note
Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studio
SQL Server Reporting Services 64216

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studio

Well I tried and I spent a few hours searching the net for a solution which displays the hours in the top columns, and undefined number of rooms in the rows. No all I was looking for was a calendar showing 1 day with the hours on the top. Working hours only as well... Ok I admit I only googled for about 1 hour before I...

Read note
SSRS Expand specific drilldown by default
SQL Server Reporting Services 27007

SSRS Expand specific drilldown by default

I thought I'd put something here as there are lots of posts like this on forums (a lot of which seem to be copied & pasted from other sites) but they refer to SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. This is how to do it in SQL Server 2008 and creating a report in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or MS Report...

Read note
Alternate row background colour in Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services 40395

Alternate row background colour in Reporting Services

This is just a note for me as it took a while to find on the net and even then it was confusing as to why it works but it does. Not sure whether you call this an MDX Query or part of a Transact-SQL mashup. You need to go to "Fill" (of each text box in the row - unless there's a faster way) and instead of color, click o...

Read note
Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+
Joomla 254824

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+

Update June 2013 - How to use this migration script: Make a backup copy of your old Joomla website (1.5.x) Download and install the latest Joomla CMS Go through the Joomla Web-based Installation GUI until the process deletes the Installation folder. Avoid installing Sample Data if possible (there will be some but this...

Read note
SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studio
Transact-SQL 61387

SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studio

So I find myself searching the web for a way of producing an outlook-style calendar within Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). Weekdays along the top and then dates inside. Additionally we would like this linked to events in a database. I'm calling this project "Reinventing the Wheel" because the request w...

Read note

Working principle

Our Purpose

This site exists as a practical knowledge base built from real-world experience across systems, platforms, and technologies since 1999. Much of the content documents solutions, edge cases, and working patterns that were learned through investigation where documentation was incomplete or absent, and is shared to reduce the same friction for others.

27 Years in IT
1021 CRM clients
810 Site articles
29.7m+ Reads / hits