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This article is a note on how I fixed an issue on a client site. The website had a redirect on the login which would go to a page accessible by "registered" users but only "Super Users" could actually login. "Registered" users would not be able to login, despite their status in the admin panel saying "enabled" and "act...
A quick note on how to copy files and folders over without overwriting existing files. It's easy to say "Yes" and replace all files. What I need is something that synchronizes files on an internal hard drive to an external one. I wanted it to copy only the files that were new in the original folder and only copy those...
A very quick note on why borders may be misbehaving in SSRS. This note corrects the situation at Design time. This is where you are trying to select a cell to have an outline border but then cells around it without a border. You may find that BIDS or Report Builder (however you're building your report) will apply the b...
Practice makes perfect. Or in my case, any practice is a start. This article serves as a quick note on how to use regular expressions within SQL statements: How? For the following examples, I am pretending to select rows from a table called `STUDENTS`.
This article is to remind me how to create a blank weekly timesheet which reads the duration of events from a database and auto-completes your timesheet.
A quick note on how I got round one this one.
This is an extract from a forum which solved our problem for why the ReCaptcha part disappears from the user registration form. We have Joomla 2.5.16 installed and no new updates for a plugin that comes with Joomla 2.5 install. How? Source: Joomla! • View topic - Cannot get recaptcha to display on registration form...
This article describes solutions to the error: Subscriptions cannot be created because the credentials used to run the report are not stored, or if a linked report, the link is no longer valid. How?
This is a quick note on one reason you may get the above error in a Joomla CMS environment. Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in /public_html/index.php How? Not really a solution here because this is indicating that the system can't find the core framework files. Yes the bad news is you have lost your si...
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