Zoho Creator: Retrieve record with case-insensitive query
Thought I'd put an article here to remind me how to make the retrieval of a record case-insensitive.
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Thought I'd put an article here to remind me how to make the retrieval of a record case-insensitive.
An article on setting a date field to either the first Monday of the next month or to the last Tuesday of the current/next month. What I mean by the last Tuesday is if the last Tuesday of the month is before the current date, then set it to the last Tuesday of next month.
So this is a quick article to demo how to center an iframe horizontally and vertically in a screen/viewport in pure CSS (no JavaScript allowed). This CSS centers it by its center point rather than the top/bottom/left/right outline.
A quick article on how to count within a map. I didn't have too much difficulty getting this to work and I'm not sure if there are better ways of counting so I'm documenting it to see if I can refine the code or find a some short codes that will do the same.
This is a reminder on how to swap out a product in an invoice.
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This is a quick reminder for myself on opening a CSV in MS Excel but without converting long numbers into exponential notations (which are incorrectly rounded anyway). My Data: Account ID,Name,Phone,Record ID 1457102000000135533,Joel,00441234567890,1457102000000165989 1457102000000135566,Stanley,01709123456,14571020000...
Yay for Microsoft Windows 10 in joining the rest of the Operating Systems in implementing multiple desktops. So if you have a Mac or Linux system, you will know of a feature where you can have another virtual desktop on your device. For those that don't know it, the feature is similar to mobile phones where you swipe l...
A sorta quick article to note how I can generate refresh tokens and access tokens using Zoho Deluge code (so within Zoho Creator, CRM or Books) without XML calls.
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