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Frontpage Item Ordering
Joomla

Frontpage Item Ordering

Having trouble ordering your frontpage articles? After re-ordering articles wondering where it was taking the order it puts the articles in the front page (or landing page) was confusing me. The quick answer is that it is within the menu manager > main menu > menu item section of your Joomla! Admin Panel. Certain Advan...

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Error during processing - Converting Date/Time
Transact-SQL

Error during processing - Converting Date/Time

Well I find myself again the dummie of the Internet. I basically came across this error and STFW'd for ages following complex T-SQL Timestamp conversions but to no avail. Not saying that you shouldn't try their solutions but just check you haven't done this silly mistake. I'm only guessing the same error would happen i...

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Joe's Unduplicater (JUD)
Product Documentation

Joe's Unduplicater (JUD)

If you need to remove files which are simply the converted versions of music or video files, then this tool asks which folder has the files it will keep and which ones it will send to the Recycle Bin. TESTED ON: - Windows XP, Windows 7 SCREENSHOTS: LICENSE: These scripts are offered freely and in good faith. Please do...

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Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports
Excel

Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports

Following up on my article on correcting disappearing headers, a further issue with our web-report is that even an export to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports 9, created extra columns. This issue could not be replicated on the client machine (ie. from my workstation). I would have to upload the report to the serve...

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Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headers
Excel

Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headers

If you've been to the point where you're exporting a report to Excel, and only some of the column headers appear, then try this: I googled this for ages and found different suggestions here and there but none of them produced consistent results. One solution was to untick "Simplify page headers" on the Excel Format Opt...

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Change Regional Settings for your Report
SQL Server Reporting Services

Change Regional Settings for your Report

Basically I thought that the regional settings of a report generated using Report Builder 2.0 on a MS SQL Server 2008 instance were dependent on either the server or the client machine. Realised that this was actually specified in the report. Here's a quick note on how to set Dates and Times used in parameter fields to...

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Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1
SQL Server Reporting Services

Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1

Dunno about you guys but I've searched the WWW for a solution and couldn't find it. The work around I've documented is a "solution" to my situation and environment. Our setup is: SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 BMC Service Desk Express 9.8 DataSet1: Incident # Group Name Close Date & Time Assigned to Full Name Incid...

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SSRS Report Builder 2.0 - Error during processing
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Report Builder 2.0 - Error during processing

The Issue After modifying a report and on running it, Report Builder 2.0 returns the following error: An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for dataset 'DataSet1'. The variable name '@GroupName' has already been declared. Variable names...

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