Migrate MediaWiki to another serverhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/migrate-mediawiki-to-another-server.html

23 September 2009 Old Server mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb.sql tar -cvf wiki.tar wiki ;this is the wiki folder on document root New Server: create database wikidb; this is inside mysql, Note that both mysql versions should be same. grant create, select, insert,...

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Zoho Deluge: Determine if Daylight Savings are in effecthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-if-daylight-savings-are-in-effect.html

03 July 2023 What? If you're lucky enough to build an application for a client based in a country that changes its clocks twice a year, then I'm opening this article without a 100% certain solution as I need to wait about 4 months until I can confirm this works....

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Zoho Books: Get Invoice Payment Terms via APIhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-get-invoice-payment-terms-via-api.html

06 July 2023 What? A quick article on getting the payment terms in Zoho Books along with their IDs. Why? I often need to send through an automatic payment term on the creation of an invoice but lots of my clients set their due dates differently. How? The following...

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Zoho Deluge: Get the Week Number if Week starts on a Mondayhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-the-week-number-if-week-starts-on-a-monday.html

06 July 2023 What? A quick article on determining the week number of the year if your week starts on a Monday and not a Sunday. Why? I think it's the US system which generally says that a week starts on a Sunday but in the United Kingdom, the week generally starts...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Creator: Find Duplicates by Customer Name for Large Datasetshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-find-duplicates-by-customer-name-for-large-datasets.html

12 July 2023 What? There are other sources on the web which show you how to deduplicate a contact but usually involve entering a customer name or other key to check if there are already records in the system with that key. I can't sit there entering one customer at...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoBooks: Error Code 15: Ensure Billing Address has less than 100 charactershttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-code-15-ensure-billing-address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

18 September 2023 What? Another article on something I learned today despite never running into this issue before; but sending a billing/shipping address included in a request to create or update an estimate in ZohoBooks will fail... Why? I have a function to push a...

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Zoho Books: Generate Bank Text File for Downloadhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-generate-bank-text-file-for-download.html

02 October 2023 // // initialize v_CSVString = "Bank Sort Code,Bank Acc. No,Account Holder"; v_CSVString = v_CSVString + "12-34-56,012345678,Joel Lipman"; // // convert to a TXT file (not a CSV...) f_BillsExport = v_CSVString.tofile("PaymentRun.txt"); Attach the file...

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Zoho Creator: Error Code 2945: EXTRA KEY FOUND IN JSONhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-error-code-2945-extra_key_found_in_json.html

04 October 2023 What? A quick article on how I resolved this error and how the online forums and documentation did not. Why? I don't often do this to create a Creator record but I'm going to use the shortcode function zoho.creator.createRecord() and wanted to update...

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Zoho CRM: ZDK Client Script: Auto-Select Pipeline based on User Departmenthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zdk-client-script-auto-select-pipeline-based-on-user-department.html

16 October 2023 What? A super quick article on how to pre-select the pipeline on deal creation within CRM based on the department specified on a user's profile. Why? A client asked that when staff create a deal/opportunity record in CRM, the pipeline is automatically...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoCRM: Using Criteria with Module Record Counthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-using-criteria-with-module-record-count.html

14 November 2023 What? An example of code using the new API call "Module Record Count" with some criteria. Why? At time of print, I couldn't find an example of how to use this API call with search filters or criteria. Not sure about the rest of you, but I've been using...

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Zoho Creator: Get Images in Report to be Exported to PDFhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-get-images-in-report-to-be-exported-to-pdf.html

26 January 2024 What? This is an article to document how to produce a report which when exported to PDF will display images without a user wall. Why? Our client needs to send a report to suppliers that include photos of the faulty products. These display fine in a Zoho...

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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 What? This is a quick article on generating a file with 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...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge and Wordpress/WooCommerce API: Get All Productshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-and-wordpress-woocommerce-api-get-all-products.html

15 April 2024 + ".json"); // // send this to us via email sendmail [ from :zoho.adminuserid to :"me@joellipman.com" subject :"All Products from " + v_MyWordPressSiteUrl + " as of " + zoho.currenttime.toString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ssXXX") message :"Please see the...

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Zoho Creator: Render to PDF with margins and page numbershttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-render-to-pdf-with-margins-and-page-numbers.html

07 May 2024 What? There are already articles out there that document this but I use this more and more and would rather just find it on my site than going through multiple bookmarks. Why? This use-case is for a customer who simply wanted a quote template to be...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Books / Inventory: Get Item Rate from a Price Book/Listhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-get-item-rate-from-a-price-book-list.html

23 May 2024 What? A quick article on how to get the pricebook entry using Zoho Deluge for a specific product in your ZohoBooks or ZohoInventory instance. Why? This took me the best part of an hour to determine by going through forum posts from 7 years to 2 years...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Projects: Get All Eventshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-get-all-events.html

22 July 2024 What? A quick article because I couldn't find anything that documented this with a working example. Why? The use-case here is that we want to make a ZohoCreator page display events for this month from ZohoProjects. How? The bit that stumped me was...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Does Google Chrome Frame really improve performancehttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/does-google-chrome-frame-really-improve-performance.html

23 September 2009 The jury's still out on this one. I have noticed a slight improvement in my page loads but will have to carry out proper tests on the weekend. Instructions to a hard-coder The Google Chrome Frame (or ChromiumBrowser) is quick to enable. Simply ask your...

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

Zoho Analytics: Create a Monitoring System with Imageshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-create-a-monitoring-system-with-images.html

25 July 2024 keys later on to link my report to so keep them short without any special characters. I then saved this table with the name "Joels Image Library". I think I closed it and reopened it but now I want a 2nd column. So I click on the "Add" button and select...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge: Determine your Statement Execution Limithttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-your-statement-execution-limit.html

31 July 2024 What? A very quick article on how to check what the statement execution limit is on the Zoho application you are working in. Why? Our use-case is that an application we built in Zoho Creator was hitting statement execution limits and rather than...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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What can MAGA’s do to stop Biden from cheating again?https://joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/jokes/what-can-maga’s-do-to-stop-biden-from-cheating-again.html

28 August 2024 A guy goes to a bar and is served by a robot bartender. The robot says, "What'll you have?" and the guy says, "A martini." He then gets the best martini he's ever tasted. The robot says, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "167." The robot proceeds to chat...

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