Zoho Books: System Values Mapshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-system-values-maps.html

07 November 2023 of code snippets I seem to be regularly using to generate a dynamic map of system values held in a ZohoBooks instance. Why? Rather than hard-coding and having a ton of if..then statements, I can feed these maps a textual value and it returns the ID to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Get Images in Report to be Exported to PDFhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-get-images-in-report-to-be-exported-to-pdf.html

26 January 2024 parent form first, then add the lookup to the ticket field on the subform so that I get the popup to enable bi-directional rather than via the tickbox. The below code is added to a trigger whenever the ticket form is submitted either on creation or...

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

ZohoCreator: Using .toFile and Uploading to a Creator fieldhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-using-tofile-and-uploading-to-a-creator-field.html

25 March 2024 c_Product.ID + "\""); l_CsvLines.add(l_CsvRow.toString()); } Generate the file You may note that this generates a text file rather than a CSV, this is because our JS widget won't pack a CSV but it will pack text files. // // generate a CSV or TXT...

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

Zoho Webhooks & Shopify API: Keep Disappearinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-webhooks-shopify-api-automatically-restore.html

22 April 2024 Check and Restore If you notice your webhooks automatically being removed. It's often because you have it processing data rather than responding straight away (less than 1 second requirement) to Shopify with "yes received" response. As such, here's a...

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

ZohoCRM: Daily Follow Up and Remind Record Owner to Convert Leadhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-follow-up-and-remind-record-owner-to-convert-lead.html

14 May 2024 of lead? Ensure that when this has been converted to a contact it removes this task.) - Use connection as system user rather than default crm connection - Reminder cannot be set for task creation time so create task at the same time as lead and set...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Sign: Send CRM Merged Template for Zoho Signhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-sign-send-crm-merged-template-for-zoho-sign.html

06 August 2024 document. I know this exists in ZohoSign already but we don't expect staff to go to another app to check on this and would rather see it directly in ZohoCRM on the relevant record. So the more observant among you will have noted that I'm recording the...

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

Zoho Creator: Input Color Pickerhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-input-color-picker.html

14 October 2024 + ".zc-Color_Picker .customRadio+label{display:none !important;}"; // float the radio options to the left to be horizontal rather than vertical v_CssStyle = v_CssStyle + ".zc-Color_Picker .choice-table-cell{float:left;padding:0 !important;line-height:0...

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

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

20 March 2025 are just not matching... either way, your client will likely only accept the previous solution. I wanted to use a regex rather than treat the number as a string and truncate it that way. Given the possible options of numbers given, it has to work with...

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

Splatter Logohttps://joellipman.com/graphic-design/splatter-logo.html

30 September 2009 I saw this article and rather than bookmark it I thought I could just have it here for easy reference. It was written for Photoshop but I use Paint Shop Pro and felt I could do the same. It's just so complicated in Photoshop when web-developers need to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Graphic Design
• Language: *

Add default to a picture buttonhttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/add-default-to-a-picture-button.html

10 November 2009 to the ENTER key after you typed something (this is for a search feature) in addition to having a button if the user would rather click then press the ENTER key. Then create the mouseover and mouseout effects afterwards. Add the image for your GUI: Gui,...

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

Invalid arguments passed in router.php on line 325https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/invalid-arguments-passed-in-routerphp-on-line-325.html

03 August 2010 have to create an account on someone else's forum just to post my answer and secondly because my solution is a "cowboy fix" rather than the other intelligent solutions on the web. The issue was that I was building my first Joomla 1.5 component and...

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

MySQL Oracle equivalentshttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql-oracle-equivalents.html

27 September 2010 title of this article implies something rather odd and upcoming considering that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL and Oracle bought Sun. But in fact, this is just a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle: Objective MySQL Oracle...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• Language: en-GB

Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html

05 April 2011 The requirement in a lot of my reports in SSRS has always been a date range rather than just the one date. The user must be allowed to select all results between two dates instead of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter (ToDate) is the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

First and Last Entry on a Page using Modulus Remainderhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/first-and-last-entry-on-a-page-using-modulus-remainder.html

26 September 2011 at every first entry of a page). I want the script to close the DIV layer at the last entry of each page. So I have a loop Rather crude but it's a FOR loop for those old CMS's running PHP4: for ($this_link_index=1; $this_link_index

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Deserialization and cannot checkout files in TFShttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/tfs/deserialization-and-cannot-checkout-files-in-tfs.html

03 January 2013 from annual leave and I can't check-out / check-in any files in a Visual Studio 2010 project. All my colleagues can. What? Rather silly I know and the solution is one of those obvious ones for those that know how but for those who can't remember, then...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Team Foundation Server
• Language: *

Live WebCam feed of Bournemouthhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/live-webcam-feed-of-bournemouth.html

30 January 2013 has come to the rescue and returned my calming view... Note: I think this is running in British Summer Time (BST) rather than GMT or it's clock is seriously off. Otherwise it's a picture from the future (see photo timestamps).

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

A for loop within a for loop in MS-DOShttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/a-for-loop-within-a-for-loop-in-ms-dos.html

03 October 2013 How? Note: we're using the code in a DOS Batch program so our variables have to be prefixed with a double-percent rather than just the one: -- the following loops through directory for any file beginning with Reference FOR %%A IN ('DIR...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Display question mark when date is blankhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-display-question-mark-when-date-is-blank.html

15 April 2014 Studio 2012 Premium Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I have a column in an SSRS report which displays a date. Being rather pernickety, I would like a question mark to display if there is no date to populate the field. Why? At the moment, the...

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

SITS: XET format for Export not availablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-xet-format-for-export-not-available.html

08 August 2014 Trying to export a STU record but I want to use the XET template I created rather than the pre-installed XML export formats. When I try to export using data format XET, the system has never heard of it. Why? To test the XET I created, I want to see what...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

MySQL Updating a database table from another tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-updating-a-database-table-from-another-table.html

22 October 2014 from another table using a string comparison. Why? I have several database tables which replicate country names and I would rather they all use the ccTLD two letter code. This article was written because it took me so long to work it out. How? UPDATE...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB