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  1. Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reportshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/blank-columns-issue-when-exporting-to-excel-data-only-from-crystal-reports.html

    actual size of the data can cause blank columns. Make sure the field width is just wide enough to display the longest data value. Cause 3: Fields and objects in the same column do not have the same text alignment For example, the column heading text...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: *
  2. Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://joellipman.com/hardware/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html

    the service. Cheque overpayment. A buyer, prospective tenant or even an employer will send you a cheque worth more than the value of the items/rent/job. They’ll then ask for the surplus money to be returned to them or a third party, for example ‘to pay...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  3. Returned a data type that is not validhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

    builder or business intelligence development studio, you can specify in the report designer how to format the returned value to a more user-friendly date format (such as Month name then year - eg. November 2010). I have been told that data types are a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  4. Parameters not being used in report processinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/parameters-not-being-used-in-report-processing.html

    query). Problems: Given a date, the date format was reverting to US format as opposed to European Given a Campus as a text value, the SQL query was ignoring this completely Hardcoding the scalar local variables worked I have two parameters that will be...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  5. Alternate row background colour in Reporting Serviceshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/alternate-row-background-colour-in-reporting-services.html

    do it to the first column then bring up the properties pane and scroll down to the "Fill > BackgroundColor" row and copy the value to your clipboard or notepad, etc. Then select all the remaining cells in the row and paste your expression in the "Fill >...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  6. PHP & MySQL Search Enginehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-a-mysql-search-engine.html

    $didyoumean_words_array=array(); // Note: for some systems you can do a levenshtein on two words soundex value and compare these. // Be warned that it does go off track though in terms of relevance... Sources: iamcal.com Nadeau Software

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  7. SSRS Redirect after a report is runhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-redirect-after-a-report-is-run.html

    execution auto-redirect after are a report is run ssrs vbscript post report processing ssrs auto redirect based on a dataset value

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  8. AutoHotkey Format Date and Format Secondshttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-format-date-and-format-seconds.html

    %Format% return Formattedtime } The following function is to convert a given SQL date or a European date formatted value: FormatDate(val) { ; SQL format (yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss) IfInString, val, - { StringReplace, val, val, -,,All StringReplace, val, val,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Stop Excel Row Height Self-Adjust on Refreshhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/stop-excel-row-height-self-adjust-on-refresh.html

    I am at the moment without VBCode and other suggestions. Instead I add a newline in front of and after the smallest data value (one that I know will never be two lines (or two words)) within the SQL query itself. We have a DEPT column that is an acronym...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  10. Basic Oracle Function Structurehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-function-structure.html

    and if I want to torture my successors, I'll complicate the function myself. How? Functions are supposed to return a single value, which is all I need in this case. In my example, I need to submit an Active Directory (AD) username and receive a student...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  11. No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

    processing the overall report. How? Browsing the web for a solution, most suggest using NVL() but this only replaces a NULL value with a string of your choice; and even if you NVL all returned fields, no rows are returned, and not a row of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  12. Connect to Joomla database in standalone scripthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/connect-to-joomla-database-in-standalone-script.html

    function applied to a number. You will need to be more vigilent. Variables are all cleared and redefined. To pass a value to this script you have to use the $_GET, $_POST or $_SESSION methods. Or redeclare it after the above. MYSQLI_USE_RESULT allows...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Adding a selectable background to a Yootheme templatehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/adding-a-selectable-background-to-a-yootheme-template.html

    Color Ambient Turquoise Add a \templates\\css\background\ambientturquoise.css file. Note the same filename as in the option value of the previous step. body#page { background: #f4f5f5 url(../../images/background/ambientturquoise/ambientturquoise.jpg) 0...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  14. SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

    as "{CR}{LF}" - my rows to skip is because of the state of my data): Crucial fix here, add 2 to the OutputColumnWidth value. It seems you need to set the data column to accommodate for the special characters the blank rows somehow feed in. In this case,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  15. SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sourceshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-how-to-loop-through-multiple-flat-files-as-data-sources.html

    a variable (preferably to the scope of the package) called "SourceExtractFile" and give it the data type "String". Set the Value to the full path and the first file including its extension (eg. "C:\Temp\SourceFiles\File00001.txt" - although I used a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  16. AHK Countdown Tooltiphttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html

    else unless they work for the same company and they're leaving on the same date at the same time. Amend the "FinalDate" value to when you leave, compile the code into an executable, and schedule it as a windows task for when you are logged in: ; ;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
  17. Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

    or update this app. {youtube}fQD0xVEYDks{/youtube} Location: For location, type a city name, post code, zip code or any value that is understood by the api.openweathermap.org website. There are plans to shift this to using Google Services as they are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Product Documentation
    • Language: *
  18. Android: Replace return key with done, go, send...https://joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-replace-return-key-with-done-go-send.html

    return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device. Why? I have an editText where a user can enter any text value but if they typed a return character, the app would crash because it didn't understand the data. I tried replacing the new...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AndroidOS
    • Language: *
  19. Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html

    A quick article on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 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 -------------------------------------...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  20. Submit form as a server and not the client with cURLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/submit-form-as-a-server-and-not-the-client-with-curl.html

    A quick article on how to create a middleware script which accepts the values from a submitted HTML form and sends it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups. Why? A customer wanted to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: API Miscellaneous
    • Language: *
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