Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html

07 July 2014 on a database on the other side of the world. I want the header in the column "Academic Week" to break across two lines so that the column doesn't expand to the width of "Academic Week" and instead expands to the width of the word "Academic". What I...

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

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 This doesn't have much affect on point-to-point conversions and strings but what if the value is blank and I try to convert that date of birth from SQL format (yyyy-mm-dd) to European format (dd/mm/yyyy)? See the following: -- assuming value of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
• Language: *

Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html

06 November 2014 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B ------------------------------------- ---------------------- Beijing Capital International Airport...

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

Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

16 May 2016 A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page. Why? There are 3rd-party apps that let you do this, some paid, some not. This was for a staff portal so I wanted this at no extra cost. This is read-only so...

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

Upload file to Google Drive with PHP/cURL and API REST v3 (without Client Library)https://joellipman.com/articles/google/upload-file-to-google-drive-with-php-curl-and-api-rest-v3-without-library-install.html

29 October 2018 So this is supposed to be a quick article detailing how I used a PHP function to upload a video file to Google Drive. Note that this example does not involve installing the Google Client Library for PHP. So no classes or built-in functions that you...

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

Zoho Deluge - Update Creator from CRMhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-update-creator-from-crm.html

18 February 2019 » Developer Space » Connections » Create Connection » Zoho Ensure you enable/tick "ZohoCreator/creatorapi". Note the name that you call it (displayed in mixed case but will be used in its lowercase form) Method #1: Using UpdateRecords() function with...

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

Zoho Deluge - Generate 5 Letter Booking Retrieval Codehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-5-letter-booking-retrieval-code.html

09 May 2019 Zoho doesn't have a function to generate random numbers or strings. There are workarounds however. How? The first note is that there is something that can emulate a random number... well it's not really random, it involves getting the milliseconds from...

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

Convert Past Date to Time Ago in PHPhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-past-date-to-time-ago-in-php.html

16 May 2019 Just a quick note to refine a function that will take a date in the past and return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Why? Here are some examples of what we want to achieve: 1 year 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours 6...

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

CSS Ordered List 1, 1.1...1.10 Formatting and Alignmenthttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-ordered-list-1-1-1-1-10-formatting-and-alignment.html

10 July 2019 A quick article to remind me on how create an multi-level ordered list that indents and aligns correctly. Why? I'm finding that I need to do this quite often for some clients who want to include their terms and conditions in quote/invoice templates and...

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

Zoho Deluge: Associate/Link an Invoice to a Sales Orderhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-associate-link-an-invoice-to-a-sales-order.html

10 March 2020 This is an article because there was no documentation that I could find that describes how to do this. When an invoice is created, not by clicking on the "convert sales order to invoice" button, I needed a way to programmatically link the sales order to...

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

AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 Windows 7 Professional - Service Pack 1 AutoHotkey v1.1.33.02 What? So this is the documentation for a snippet of code that will list files of a directory using an AutoHotkey GUI and display what it will name them. The app needs to rename files but...

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

Zoho Creator: info/alert/modal/popup notification for any userhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-info-alert-modal-popup-notification-for-any-user.html

06 November 2020 So I thought I'd write a quick article to remind me and to develop a simple notification system that will popup for any user on the submit of a form, or on the click of a button or on the click of a link on a page. Why? Because alert (alert task) can...

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

Zoho CRM: Mapping a Multi-User or Multi-Lookup field using Delugehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-mapping-a-multi-user-or-multi-lookup-field-using-deluge.html

28 April 2021 to another, sometimes you need to manage existing multi-lookups/users in a record. How? So the key point to remember is that all multi-select lookup and multi-user lookup fields are held in temporary CRM modules called a "LinkingModule" (as opposed to...

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

Zoho Projects: Add a Time Log to an Issue using Delugehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-add-a-time-log-to-an-issue-using-deluge.html

30 April 2021 backend code, Zoho refer to Issues as "Bugs". Why? At time of this article (Apr-2021), we could not find a working example that could allow us to do this. I have provided some links at the end of this article for you which we tried to use but only...

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

ZohoCRM: zoho.crm.searchRecords only returns certain recordshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-search-records-only-returns-certain-records.html

29 July 2021 quicker than it took me, why a zoho.crm.searchRecords() returns some of the records but omits others. Why? The use-case was that we were creating a custom related list on a Zoho Finance > Sales Orders module but it wasn't finding all the Quotes related...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Custom Related Lists Delugehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-custom-related-lists-deluge.html

30 July 2021 solution. How? So the article below shows how to do this Zoho CRM and how to do it in Zoho Books... The example below is that we are going to search for some records in Zoho Creator and display these in either Zoho Books or Zoho CRM. For demonstration...

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

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

13 October 2021 used in Zoho Creator to retrieve the Product IDs of all the active products in a client's eBay store. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to retrieve a list of all the listed active products in a fixed price item listing. The example below is a function...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Writer: Button to Merge Template, Send, and Attachhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-writer-button-to-merge-template,-send,-and-attach.html

21 October 2021 wants to click a button to generate a merged document in Writer and attach it to the CRM record. Why? Our use-case is that we have a client who has to go to the CRM record, click on Mail Merge, which opens Writer, then has to click on various settings...

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

Zoho CRM/Deluge: Get TimeZone Based on GeoCoded Address (Lat/Lng)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-deluge-get-timezone-based-on-geocoded-address-lat-lng.html

15 December 2021 to geocode into latitude and longitude coordinates to feed a third-party API which returns a timezone. Why? Our use-case is that we have a field called "Customer's Time Zone" on the lead record in ZohoCRM. It should be auto-populated... How? As...

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

Zoho Deluge: Text (SMS) reminder using Twilio API (LocalSense)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-text-sms-using-twilio-api-localsense.html

16 December 2021 A very quick article to remind me how to send a text message using Twilio API in Zoho Deluge. Why? The use-case here is that we want local sense dialing where specific numbers are used both for outbound and inbound but local to the customer and we want...

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