Zoho CRM & Creator: Download attachment and upload to Creator file fieldhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-download-attachment-and-upload-to-creator-file-field.html

11 March 2022 article on how to download an attachment from CRM and upload to a "file upload" field in Creator. Why? My use case here is that we are creating a Creator app that will show the attachments on a CRM contact record (and be clickable). The complication...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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ZohoDesk & ZohoAnalytics: Display Ticket Attachments in Analytics Reporthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodesk-zohoanalytics-display-ticket-attachments-in-analytics-report.html

05 December 2023 is to create a data table and then to push the attachment from ZohoDesk to ZohoAnalytics using the API. The use-case here is that a client wants customers to submit ZohoDesk tickets and upload photos of the problematic product to the ticket. They then...

• 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 the Zoho Deluge function .toFile() and uploading it to a file upload field within Zoho Creator. Why? The use-case here is that we want a file to be hosted within Zoho Creator for use by a JS widget that will download the CSV (in this case a Text *.txt)...

• Type: Article
• 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 a specified user". Why? Sorry Zoho! I tried using the interface to set up a workflow or any other mechanisms within ZohoCRM that allowed me to set up a daily reminder to the lead record owner but to no avail. An assignment rule wouldn't work in this...

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

Zoho CRM: JS Widget: Generic Script to pass the Record ID to a CRM functionhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-js-widget-generic-script-to-pass-the-record-id-to-a-crm-function.html

18 August 2025 Unfortunately, if you do this simply using Zoho Deluge in a button, there are no new lines/carriage returns or styling that you can apply, which pops up as a message box to the sales person; but all on one line and not that readable. Using a JS Widget,...

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

MySQL: Find records in one table that are not in another.https://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-that-are-not-in-another.html

25 February 2011 slow (as observed by the customer...) and then others not. The What I'm going to run these benchmark tests against a system that is both up and running via the front-end and back-end. It's MediaWiki CMS used by Wikipedia.org and the like. I like queries...

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

Database Error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/database-error-unable-to-connect-to-the-database-could-not-connect-to-mysql.html

25 September 2009 problem is the number of MYSQL database queries. It goes up to about 200,000 in the first few minutes of use and then after that every page load is a few hundred to few thousand queries (per page). The webserver limits me to 50,000 queries an hour and I...

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

Things to Check if Joomla Password Reminder email not being senthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/things-to-check-if-joomla-password-reminder-email-not-being-sent.html

09 May 2013 and tick the “Constant” radio box and click on the “Search” button. What displays in the search results should be the text that the system emails out on password change. The default if you’ve lost it is as below (exclude the double-quotes): “Hello,\n\nA...

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

Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 member function mark() on a non-object in /public_html/index.php How? Not really a solution here because this is indicating that the system can't find the core framework files. Yes the bad news is you have lost your site. The good news is that it's only...

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

XML Schema Referencehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xml-schema-reference.html

13 August 2014 Elements Element Explanation all Specifies that the child elements can appear in any order. Each child element can occur 0 or 1 time annotation Specifies the top-level element for schema comments any Enables the author to extend the XML document with...

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

Zoho Creator: Prevent Endless Loops On User Input of a Fieldhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-prevent-endless-loops-on-user-input-of-a-field.html

19 September 2021 circle of death": they load up a Creator application or change a field and there will be a spinning icon indicating that the field has triggered an automation/workflow but it keeps spinning and doesn't stop. The app page will ultimately timeout and when...

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

Zoho Creator: Radio group into Calendar Carouselhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-radio-group-into-calendar-carousel.html

09 March 2022 Another article on styling a radio group to become a weekly calendar carousel. In that a radio group displays the days of the week with arrows allowing the user to select the next or previous week. This is a follow on from my other articles on restyling...

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

PC Build 2022: 5 Monitors connected to 1 PC using 1 GPUhttps://joellipman.com/pc-build-2022-5-monitors-connected-to-1-pc-using-1-gpu.html

12 March 2022 connected to the 3 monitors at the top and the home PC connected to the 2 monitors underneath: How? My upgrade for 2022, is that all monitors are now connected to my home PC. The way to do this might be different for you depending on the components of...

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

Zoho Deluge: Shopify API: Get all active products with GraphQL and Paginationhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-shopify-api-get-all-active-products-with-graphql-and-pagination.html

20 February 2023 in being able to ONLY retrieve the first 100 products using GraphQL, so page 1 of Shopify products. Why? Our use-case is that we retrieve the 100 most recently modified products at the end of each day and run some Deluge code against it to ensure that...

• Type: Article
• 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 Instead, let's use a CRM function to store the conversation between ChatGPT and the CRM User. This way, we can also ensure that the data shared can be controlled/monitored. Create a CRM Module called "GPT Chats" (singular: GPT Chat) Modify the name...

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

ZohoCRM Webhook: Create ZohoInventory Records from an eBay orderhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-webhook-create-zohoinventory-records-from-an-ebay-order.html

27 April 2023 This is a not-so-quick article that queries an eBay order and creates the relevant ZohoInventory item, contact, sales order, package slip, shipment order, invoice, payment records... Why? I'm storing this here as a reference and taking the bits that I...

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

Excel: Find values in one column that are not in anotherhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-find-values-in-one-column-that-are-not-in-another.html

06 March 2014 A quick note on how to compare two columns for values that are not found in another. I have a column with old values, and now that I have a new list, I want a quick way to see what values are in the old column and which ones are new... Why? Consider the...

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

How to redirect the visitor after the contact pagehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/how-to-redirect-the-visitor-after-the-contact-page.html

06 September 2009 $contact[0]->id .’&Itemid=’. $Itemid; mosRedirect( $link, _THANK_MESSAGE ) replace that code with the URL for the contact Thank-you page as defined as follows: $link = sefRelToAbs( 'index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id='. $contact[0]->id...

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

Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windowshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/remove-write-protect-from-pen-in-windows.html

13 April 2010 "remove device safely" rubbish as my old pen never did and it was fine for over a year. The default setup in windows XP is that it doesn't need it. Bulletproof, waterproof, fireproof, shockproof BUT NOT joe-proof!... I'm using windows 7 and my day-job...

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

Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html

06 May 2010 article is to explain how to hide "Series1" from appearing in your SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) report. I am guessing that Series1 is the data series from an outer join where the joining index value is null. The chart below has 3 series or data...

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