301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

03 April 2014 cover the same topic, but as this took me the good part of an hour just to find out, I'm posting it here so I never have to look for it again. A client changed their website domain address and wanted any person visiting the old domain to be redirected...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
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ReCaptcha alternative: Integrate PlayThru in JComments 3.0 for Joomla 3.2https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-alternative-integrate-playthru-in-jcomments-3-0-for-joomla-3-2.html

27 April 2014 the user registration form. I installed it but the below details how to integrate the AYAH library with jComments. I will look at a solution using the installed plugin later. STEP #1: Signup at AYAH You need to have a publisher and scoring key, sign up...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html

05 August 2014 A quick article on an alternative to multiple lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor"). Why? Our extract phase in...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• Language: en-GB

Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 XML, we might as well stick with the technology and we're going to keep our XSLT with some slight modifications. First let's look at the XML output from SITS (this is a cut down version for demonstration purposes): 1234567 JOEL LIPMAN Two things to do...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
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Android: Keytool and Google Maps displaying greyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-keytool-and-google-maps-displaying-grey.html

31 October 2014 used) Enter the password for the key store and you should get something like the following (don't use this one but it will look like this): myexampleapp, 27-Oct-2014, PrivateKeyEntry, Certificate fingerprint (SHA1):...

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

Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

28 March 2015 Well this is my stop. It's being several hours that for others could have taken a several minutes if you knew where to look. My aim was to convert UTF-16 received XML to UTF-8 in order to convert XML to JSON and that has been achieved in part. It's 6am...

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

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 Create and Connect You will be prompted to allow permissions, so click on "Accept/Allow" 2. Determine the client datacenter Look at the URL (website address) of the CRM you are wanting to do this on. The part after Zoho is the top level domain (TLD) and...

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

Zoho CRM: Update a custom field in line items / product details using REST API v2.1https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-update-a-custom-field-in-line-items-product-details.html

17 May 2021 Test Quote"); m_CreateQuote.put("Product_Details",l_CrmLineItems); Which when converted and sent in JSON would look something like the following request: { "Subject": "My Test Quote", "Product_Details": [ { "product": { "Product_Code": "TEST1",...

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

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 as always, I'm going to cheat. My solution here was to simply repurpose a decision box field in Creator; then re-style it to look like a button; then add a workflow on click of this field. Set the form to reload the existing record when it is submitted...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Get Books Currency and Tax IDshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-get-books-currency-and-tax-ids.html

24 September 2021 and want to map the correct currency and tax by their ID numbers. How? Using the REST API and InvokeURL in Zoho Deluge to look at Zoho Books. This uses up an extra 2 calls so you could run them once, store them as a map on your function if you don't...

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

Zoho Creator: Change Radio into Tabshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-change-radio-into-tabs.html

22 October 2021 v_Css = v_Css + ""; // write this stylesheet to the note CSS input.Note_CSS = v_Css; Yields All of me Now we have the tabs looking close to what we want, you will have noted that I have done this code in-line of the form. If you were to embed the form...

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

Zoho Creator/Deluge: UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement foundhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-unpredictable-exception,-invalid-statement-found.html

17 November 2021 Just a quick article if you get the above error and what to look for. Why? I was writing a function with perhaps too many for each loops within a for loop. How? The following is 1 fix for the error: Execution Failed UnPredictable exception, Invalid...

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

Zoho Creator/Deluge: Calculating with Timezone Offsethttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-calculating-with-timezone-offset.html

07 December 2021 Name (single-line) UTC Offset (single-line) UTC DST Offset (single-line) DST In Effect (boolean) With the addition of 2 lookup fields to our booking form: one called "Customer's TimeZone" and the other called "Agent TimeZone", then our code needs to...

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

Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 they need the decimal because sometimes they might offer 12.5%. But when it displays in a template, it isn't that pretty to look at: Instead, could they have 10% to display instead of 10.00%, and display 12.5% instead of 12.50%. Well there might be a...

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

ZohoCRM: Integrate ChatGPT to ZohoZIAhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-integrate-chatgpt-to-zohozia.html

06 March 2023 Following on from the article: Zoho Cliq: Integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo. This is the next step as we get it to look at data within ZohoCRM. Why? Because it is a serious improvement upon ZohoZIA and we get a lot of requests around customizing...

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

Zoho Deluge: Get the Week Number if Week starts on a Mondayhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-the-week-number-if-week-starts-on-a-monday.html

06 July 2023 I'm just adding a little extra based on the further feedback, if we're generating a reporting year and week, we have to look at the difference between .toString("y") and .toString("Y"). Lowercase 'y' is the year and uppercase 'Y' is the year the week is...

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

Zoho Books: Estimates/Quotes: Accept & Decline Buttons on Templatehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-estimates-quotes-accept-decline-buttons-on-template.html

04 November 2024 Using ZohoFlow or other Zoho app for a webhook response, would result in the end customer suddenly downloading a JSON file. Looked a bit suspicious. The code below opens a new tab in their web-browser displaying a plain output message. How? So there are...

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

Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/hide-menu-item-from-registered-and-special.html

06 September 2009 the menu could have been created with just one item with no title and positioned at the bottom of another menu; this would look like it was all part of one menu). toubkal wrote: This cannot be done by joomla administration but can be done by template...

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

Does Google Chrome Frame really improve performancehttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/does-google-chrome-frame-really-improve-performance.html

23 September 2009 to the backend admin panel Go to Extensions > Template Manager Select the template and click on 'Edit' Click on 'Edit HTML' Look for the beginning tag Insert the code above just after the tag Click on 'Save' and you're done More Information:...

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

Changing the yourdomain.com for phpBB3https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/changing-the-yourdomaincom-for-phpbb3.html

01 October 2009 yourdomain.com as your title page in phpBB3. You need to login to the phpBB admin control panel (ACP). On the General tab, look under Board Configuration and click on 'Board Settings'. The Site name is the first field in the right panel.

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
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