Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

24 October 2014 going to film or fly. I wanted it to display the flight restrictions of the area and any other hazards I might need to take into account. Other apps I found only covered the USA, this one I wrote covers the world and can be added to really easily. It...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW) Downloadshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 reset if you specify a different image type (default is PNG) (eg. PNG to JPG -> means module has to re-download thumbnails into JPG format) - Fixed Bug: Weblink hit counter now works through Joomla! CMS - Date Uploaded: Wed, 13th Jul 2011 1.3.1-...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
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Protecting your Joomla Administrator Sectionhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/protecting-your-joomla-administrator-section.html

23 October 2015 in tandem. They will not affect the standard visitors to your Joomla website (specifically those not interested in logging into the administrator section). Updated for Joomla 3.x but pretty much the same system as used for previous versions of Joomla. I...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 started using international country and region names which include foreign characters. When we copy and paste their content into our website, our webpages display a question mark inside a diamond shape instead of the foreign character. How does it...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Convert foreign characters to English alphabethttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/convert-foreign-characters-to-english-alphabet.html

13 June 2016 -()\-.]' Joomla! Additional My Joomla website needed the following code to display the above foreign characters as entered into the Joomla administrators console with accents and all: html_entity_decode(htmlentities($ftext, ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8', true),...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: *

URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

06 May 2019 the PHP $p_Name here is the title of your article or product that will be changed into a string of only letters, numbers and underscores. Note that the PHP doesn't need a database connection here: function getUrlAlias($p_Name){ // lowercase and trim...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

AutoHotkey - MS Windows 10 - Open Apps on Multiple Monitors and Desktopshttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-ms-windows-10-open-apps-on-multiple-monitors-and-desktops.html

18 July 2019 Why? MS Windows 10 has made a major step but when you close down your PC and log back in, all the applications are grouped into the one desktop. If you have a multiple monitor setup (ie. more than 1 monitor), then MS Windows will almost remember which...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge: Convert Xero Date (Unix Timestamp) to Standard Date Stringhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-xero-date-unix-timestamp-to-standard-date-string.html

04 May 2020 info v_UnixSeconds; Error: Argument type mismatch -Found 'TEXT' but Expected 'Long' // Solution: Convert your string into a date. Source(s) toTime() function | Help - Zoho Deluge unixEpoch() function | Help - Zoho Deluge

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 I want My File 1.txt My File 2.txt My File 3 (2).wav My File 3.wav My File 3 (3).wav How? So if you copy the following code into an AutoHotkey file and execute it, it will popup an app with 3 buttons: 1st to generate or populate a list of the files in...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Zoho Deluge: Get Image Uploaded in Creator Formhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-image-uploaded-in-creator-form.html

14 July 2020 to Settings Publish Publish Component > Select your report Copy the embed code it pops up with to your clipboard Paste this into a browser Right-click on the image you want and inspect the element, this will have the SRC which is the publicly accessible...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge: Search Records with Special Characters (COQL)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-search-records-with-special-characters-coql.html

28 August 2020 subject to similar issues of escaping special characters... 1. Setup a CRM Connection to Search Records via API I won't go into detail on how to set up your own connection as I have elsewhere on my website, but to use in an invokeUrl here's a quick...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to HTML Table without a FOR loophttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-html-table-without-a-for-loop.html

11 January 2021 A very quick article on converting a Map string into a HTML table without using a for each loop. Why? I have quite a big response from our CRM that hits a statement execution limit if I use a for loop. I have a map with 3 columns: first_name, last_name,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Download File from ZohoCRM field type "File Upload" (not attachments)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-file-from-zohocrm-field-type-file-upload-not-attachments.html

02 February 2021 // add record as zoho.loginuser so that only record owners can access this record in report or form r_HoldInCreator = insert into Download_File [ Added_User=zoho.loginuser Owner_Email=v_ResultEmail File_Name=v_ThisFileName File_Ref=v_ThisFileCrmID...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Two submit buttons on a non-stateless form with 2 different redirectshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-two-submit-buttons-on-a-non-stateless-form.html

27 July 2021 == input.ID]; r_Details.Account = input.Account.toLong(); } else { //... code to create new record r_NewRecord = insert into [ = = = ]; } Done: Additional Remember that an integration field on the interface is returned as a string and needs to be...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge: Handle Commas between Quotes in a CSV (and New Lines)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-handle-commas-between-quotes-in-a-csv.html

26 August 2021 info v_FormattedString; // yields: 00011,Joel Lipman,"Flat 8|mySpecialComma| House Corner",Brummieland // split into a list (string delimited by commas) l_StringParts = v_FormattedString.toList(); // show me column 3 with myspecialcomma replaced back to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Date from a String (dd/MM/yyyy to yyyy-MM-dd)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-date-from-a-string-dd-mm-yyyy-to-yyyy-mm-dd.html

01 September 2021 when obtaining a date string and applying the method .toString("dd/MM/yyyy") is dependent on the settings. But making a date into a SQL format or from largest denominator to smallest in "yyyy-MM-dd" will usually handle the date better. Consider the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge: Calculate Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds between two Timestampshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-calculate-days,-hours,-minutes,-seconds-between-two-timestamps.html

21 September 2021 A very quick article to calculate the time between two timestamps and break it down into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Why? I've done this in lots of other systems but here's one in Zoho Deluge. How? We're going to make use of the .toLong() function...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Books: Display Sales Order Shipping Address on Package Sliphttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-display-sales-order-shipping-address-on-package-slip.html

07 October 2021 this but just in case I do, this is an article to explain how I got the shipping address from a sales order in Zoho Books into the template of the Package Slips. Why? It took me a while of playing about with the placeholder reference fields in the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho CRM: Get Unique Values of a Text Fieldhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-get-unique-values-of-a-field.html

08 October 2021 data-migration where the records exist in a staging module in CRM but I want to transform/translate one of the column values into the target How? So this is my plan: Setup a connector to CRM with the scopes ZohoCRM.coql.READ and ZohoCRM.modules.ALL...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator / eBay: Get all Active Productshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-ebay-get-all-active-products.html

13 October 2021 the page number and the number of entries per page, returns these in JSON as a Zoho Map datatype. How? I'm not going to go into detail on how I create an access token to query the eBay Trading API as you can read this in my article: Joellipman: Zoho...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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