Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html

03 June 2010 our report is exported via a web-based system, this extra dialog doesn't appear when our users export their reports. Not that it solved it as only some different headers appeared on the exported report when we followed that suggestion. Consider the...

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

Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html

05 January 2011 Named pipes Server=myServerAddress;Port=-1;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; It is the port value of -1 that tells the driver to use named pipes network protocol. This is available on Windows only. The value is ignored if Unix socket is...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 for copying and pasting this but this is information that is worth NOT losing. Tutorial on how to use COM objects in AutoHotkey. Source: Jethrow @ Autohotkey Forums Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COM This tutorial requires one of the...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 Oracle SQL Developer v3 (you can use any equivalent, eg. SQL*Plus) Why? I think this is one of those very rare occasions that Microsoft people can say "it's so much easier using a Microsoft product to work with another Microsoft product" (ie "Seamless...

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

Zoho Templates - Font size is inexplicably tinyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-templates-font-size-is-inexplicably-tiny.html

22 February 2019 font size or where I've accidentally zoomed out in the browser... but these were red herrings as I have other templates that work fine. How? The error is one of those that you wouldn't consider relevant in this case, after all, all styling was...

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

Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScripthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-create-a-widget-which-uses-javascript.html

24 October 2020 Widget which includes the Bootstrap and jQuery frameworks as well as other JavaScript functionality. Why? Quite simply that at time of print (2020-10-24), Zoho Creator does not allow you to use JavaScript anywhere in its app. HTML and CSS are mostly...

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

Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 to achieve. The Zoho People application and its API are documented but there are problems with the documentation at the time that this article was written. One is that there are 2 sets of documentation and the other is that the majority of the...

• Type: Article
• 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 I think I have a similar article on this website but the article below documents the full process to create a button that will map the values/fields from the record into a CRM Mail Merge template and send it off for signing, then return the Signed...

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

This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browserhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/html/this-file-contains-html-or-script-code-that-may-be-erroneously-interpreted-by-a-web-browser.html

08 October 2009 The Error: This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browser This is a common error when uploading files that the MediaWiki system does not allow. By making some minor changes to the MediaWiki LocalSettings.php...

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

Returned a data type that is not validhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

06 January 2011 I'd put a note on this error. Bearing in mind that this is a general data type error and not just because I tried to convert a date in SQL format to a Month name. An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during report...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks: Please ensure that the shipping_address has less than 100 characters.https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-please-ensure-that-the-shipping_address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

22 September 2021 } } However, if you try forcing the billing or shipping address in you should get the following error: Please ensure that the shipping_address has less than 100 characters. How? If you get the above error, the community forums will advise you to get the...

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

Could not instantiate mail functionhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/could-not-instantiate-mail-function.html

09 May 2011 Fix Check that this error isn't resolved by just changing the Mailer (Joomla > Global Configuration > Mailer settings). Alternate between PHPmail and sendmail just to check this isn't the problem. If the problem is still there then check the below:...

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

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

02 September 2011 To setup the call to the stored procedure for Oracle we had to do the following: We have our main report with a textbox that has the Action property: Go to Report / HouseKeepForm (our confirmation page) / With 2 parameters provided in the main report...

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

Stop Excel Row Height Self-Adjust on Refreshhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/stop-excel-row-height-self-adjust-on-refresh.html

30 September 2011 Situation I have a Microsoft Excel 2007 file that connects to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The Excel file pulls data using lookup tables and displays the data in an Excel Spreadsheet. The Problem We can select all cells and set row height to be 30 for...

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

Basic Joomla 2.5 Mootools Formhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/basic-joomla-25-mootools-form.html

20 August 2012 a new page). How? This form is more AJ than AJAX as I don't even use an XML file. You'll need to create a receiving file that sends back the data, in my case, I've called it ajax.form.php and the contents of which are: This just prints back an array of...

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

MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html

23 February 2014 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...

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

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

21 August 2014 article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors and populating an OUTPUT table in the SITS database. Note that this does not include steps thereafter in the Staging or Target destination which will be specific to your business...

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

Migrating from Joomla 2.5.x to 3.4.xhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-2-5-x-to-3-4-x.html

12 September 2015 3.4.1. I would consider the below instructions an ALPHA version as it is considered unstable for official use... Saying that this is how I upgraded my own personal website: www.joellipman.com. This article assumes you are familiar with upgrading a...

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended: Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURL... In that this one doesn't prompt for a user. Again this script doesn't need the client libraries, composer, vendor, etc. Why? This took...

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

ZohoCRM: Process all records of a modulehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-process-all-records-of-a-module.html

24 August 2021 twice. Why? Whether you have a few hundred records, or a few hundred thousand records, we sometimes want to write a function that will check each record and mark it so that the process doesn't repeat on records that have already been checked. Some...

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