Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 An article on something that has taken me several days to get working: Get Zoho Books or Zoho Inventory that when an invoice is marked as paid, update 2 custom fields with the Payment Method, and the Payment Date. Why? This was requested by a customer...

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

Zoho Creator: Populate a Multi-Lookuphttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-populate-a-multi-lookup.html

18 August 2022 This is a very quick article with a code snippet on how I added to a multi-lookup field. Why? Using a multi-line or text is possibly a quicker solution and when using a desktop interface, you can parse the multi-line into a nice HTML table. But on a...

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

ZohoFlow & ZohoSign: Retrieve a Zoho Sign document request and add attachments to CRM recordhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoflow-zohosign-retrieve-a-zoho-sign-document-request-and-add-attachments-to-crm-record.html

17 October 2022 This is an article describing a custom function built into Zoho Flow that will accept as parameter the document_id and request_id. It then retrieves the Deal Reference (entered by an office signee) on the ZohoSign document and searches for the relevant...

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

Zoho Recruit: Rollup Number of Recruit Candidates to CRM Accounthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-recruit-rollup-number-of-recruit-candidates-to-crm-account.html

19 October 2022 This is a quick article to note down some code used in Zoho Recruit. This particular bit of code will run on a workflow when a Candidate is modified, and it tallies all the candidates belonging to the same school and updates some number fields on the...

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

Zoho Deluge: Generate a loop or list of any sizehttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-a-list-of-any-size.html

21 October 2022 This is an article on a trick I picked up from one of our interviewees as well as apparently in one of the Zoho documentation manuals. It uses leftpad to create a string of a length, converts it to a list, then lets you generate an array or list of any...

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

Zoho Analytics: Set Up a Widget Displaying Sales Personhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-set-up-widget-displaying-sales-person.html

24 October 2022 A quick article to display a value in a column in a widget in Zoho Analytics. Why? Because I keep forgetting how to do it. How? I've done this for a query that amalgamated all the deals against a deal owner and needed to repeat this for all the invoices...

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

ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 An article for myself really as I couldn't find much online to address the errors I encountered below but also to document the import process of a bunch of files into a ZohoCRM system. Why? Our use-case here is a data migration for a client from a...

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

ZohoRecruit: Create Linking Table for Candidates and Associated Job Openingshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohorecruit-create-linking-table-for-candidates-and-associated-job-openings.html

08 February 2023 This article is just in case it comes up again (has twice now) where a client wants a report on candidates and associated job openings in Zoho Recruit. Why? We're creating a custom module where our client wants to query Zoho Recruit via the API but...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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 was glaringly obvious, just do a primary school mathematics table and it all makes sense (see my 10 mod table below). This article is a quick note (so I never spend as long again) in PHP on how to determine when looping through a loop, which entry was...

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

Reminder on SSRS row separatorhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/reminder-on-ssrs-row-seperator.html

26 October 2011 Notes Tuesday 04/10/2011 Another Office 09:00 17:00 Notes Row Seperator This follows on from my T-SQL Record Separator article. If you are using SQL Server Reporting Services (in my case version 2008 R2), then yes, you won't need to use the database...

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

MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oraclehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql-groupconcat-equivalent-in-t-sql-and-oracle.html

28 November 2011 see myself doing any other job and it beats daytime television any day. I use this quite a lot so I thought I'd put an article here somewhere. Based on the following concept: RowID column_to_return_as_string --------- -------------------------- 1 Me 2...

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

MySQL day of week ending on Fridayhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-day-of-week-ending-on-friday.html

26 April 2012 -- this Sunday -- 2012-04-29 -- this Sunday Other Searches These didn't get me very far until I decided to write this article: DAYOFWEEK(myDate, 1) or WEEKDAY(mydate, 1) MySQL code for first and last day of week. Day of Week starting on Monday.

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

DBMS Random Referencehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/dbms-random-reference.html

21 August 2012 10 printable characters (includes symbols/punctuation) Source: derived from: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3341051/Generating-random-numbers-and-strings-in-Oracle.htm

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: *

UNC Paths in Sharepoint 2007 linkshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sharepoint/unc-paths-in-sharepoint-2007-links.html

08 November 2012 they won't be able to use the link. Why? As soon as someone suggested I setup WebDAV to do this, I thought I'd write this article to warn others that that's unnecessary and can simply open another can of worms (security-wise). There may be situations...

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

Free Translator API using Googlehttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/free-translator-api-using-google.html

08 January 2013 So this is a quick article to get your Google Translation services working with your website. Why? At time of print, Google now charge for every 2,000,000 characters (2 million) every month. Microsoft's Bing has added itself to the fray pretending to...

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

Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Promptshttps://joellipman.com/graphic-design/joel-s-guide-to-midjourney-prompts.html

11 February 2023 So this is an article for me to store prompts for the MidJourney AI text-2-image discord tool. Why? The results from the MidJourney bot are beyond unpredictable however with the correct prompts you can direct it to focus on the elements you want from a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Graphic Design
• 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 An article to resolve my frustration 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...

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

Modifying columns in a tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/modifying-columns-in-a-table.html

24 July 2013 This is an article to remind me how to modify a column in a database table the old fashioned way (as in stop making me use GUI interfaces so poorly programmed when even I've made better DBMS tools). All SQL -- Add a column to an existing table (giving...

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

Zoho Creator: Disable/Hide the add and delete subform row buttonshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-disable-hide-the-add-and-delete-subform-row-options.html

28 February 2023 A really quick article on how to hide these using CSS... at least until Zoho have this as a setting using the GUI. Why? Our use-case is that we have a subform which gets autopopulated with a list of services. The client does not want their operations...

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

ZohoCRM: Get All eBay Active Listingshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-all-ebay-active-listings.html

01 March 2023 Another one of these articles talking about getting all the active product listings from eBay for a specific client. Why? Our use-case scenario here is that we want to get an inventory level or stock check of all the products that are currently listed...

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