The ReportServer Databasehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/the-reportserver-database.html

08 August 2011 I have just spent all morning on Microsoft websites to determine what number is the TimeDataRetrieval column displaying. Thank you I know it's an INT. There is just a serious lack of documentation as to what this database is and how it populates its...

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

Convert Decimal (Person Days) to Time in Excelhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/convert-decimal-person-days-to-time-in-excel.html

13 February 2013 We have an excel spreadsheet which reports against a mySQL database and reads time spent on projects by IT Service colleagues. The main report is a pivot table with staff members along the top, tasks down the first column, and time spent in the form of...

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

View your available module positionshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/view-your-available-module-positions.html

15 September 2009 This is another feature which took me a few years to notice in Joomla. If you've ever installed a template for Joomla and spent hours working out where or how you are going to put what where, try adding ?tp=1 after your index.php url (ie....

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

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme templatehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/installing-phpbb3-for-joomla-with-a-rockettheme-template.html

28 September 2009 "OK this should take just a few minutes..." I've written this because I spent all night on setting up a "quick" demo resulting in a quick 1 hour nap before having to go to my day job... It sounds straight forward because both phpBB3 and RocketTheme...

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

Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

25 February 2010 as a perfect project; unfortunately the first 2 pages tend to be completed in just over a day and the rest of the time is spent faffing around with design and functionality. We use the ProjectFork extension to manage projects, it helps during times when...

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

UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Charactershttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/utf8-unicode-php-mysql-for-international-characters.html

22 October 2010 is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed...

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

Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

05 January 2011 and old-school so my table style will be "Generic". > Next FINISH That's all folks! Hopefully this will save you time. I spent a whole morning following someone else's complicated connection using SQL Server Management Studio and would not recommend...

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

Parameters not being used in report processinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/parameters-not-being-used-in-report-processing.html

07 January 2011 again I've spent a whole morning going in the wrong direction with a convincing SQL script. This article is just a note on when using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or Report Builder 2.0 and when previewing the report, the parameters...

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

Formatting a date in an MDX queryhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/formatting-a-date-in-an-mdx-query.html

11 January 2011 Ordinal Suffix. I haven't seen this anywhere in Google, I thought I could use SWITCH to do this in an MDX query but I spent over an hour before I gave up trying to get SWITCH to work. Instead I cheated and got the ordinal in the Transact-SQL query: CASE...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 will it take", do not say 5 minutes. This script runs on average in 15 seconds. The remaining hours, days, weeks will be spent on bringing your website up to standard with all issues addressed and sporting the latest version of the Joomla CMS! UPDATE...

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

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

23 March 2011 I tried and I spent a few hours searching the net for a solution which displays the hours in the top columns, and undefined number of rooms in the rows. No all I was looking for was a calendar showing 1 day with the hours on the top. Working hours only...

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

CSS keeping the footer at the bottomhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-keeping-the-footer-at-the-bottom.html

25 April 2011 Spent enough time trying different methods across the web but only 1 article worked for me using the "push" div layer. Loosely based on Ryanfait: Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page Aim: Header Left Right Footer Situation The header displayed...

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

SSRS Redirect after a report is runhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-redirect-after-a-report-is-run.html

12 August 2011 a TimeInterval refreshing the page after a certain time. Conclusion In the end, this came down to a design decision. Time spent on trying to find a solution was not considered to be warranted. My reports use a parameter for the connection string to...

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

Excel PivotTable Filter List Orderinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-pivottable-filter-list-ordering.html

05 September 2011 the same boat. The Situation We have an Excel report which summarizes for our guys at the top, all the activities and time spent by staff. There are several filters available on the report (only a few to keep it simple silly). When you click on the...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 So I've spent a fun time googling and binging but still haven't found a simple and complete example of getting a resultset from an Oracle stored procedure and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Well "non-productive" more than "fun"...

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

Autohotkey Count Number of Files/Folders in a Directoryhttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-count-number-of-files-folders-in-a-directory.html

04 June 2013 This works fine at home on your local host on a local drive. Try using this over a networked drive and more time will be spent counting the files then the actual processing (or whatever your script is trying to do). Method #2: FileSystemObject...

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

Joes Google Map for Joomla (JGM)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-google-map-for-joomla-jgm.html?catid=40

13 April 2015 google map in a module using the Google Maps API v3 styling features which includes Points of Interest (POI). Considering I spent a good month styling Google Maps for Android OS on a mobile app, having access to the Google Map API v3 in JavaScript is a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Search Records with Special Characters (COQL)https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-search-records-with-special-characters-coql.html

28 August 2020 work for me and sometimes it won't. Escaping the ampersand with a backslash or url encoding to %26 wasn't working for me. I spent several hours trying to write a script that could search for the existing records by company name. The issue is that if you...

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

Zoho Inventory: Enable Tracking using the APIhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-enable-tracking-using-the-api.html

04 May 2023 One of these articles because I spent so long trying different snippets of code to enable tracking when using Deluge code to create an item in Zoho Inventory: Why? Who uses ZohoInventory for anything else than tracking stock...? How? So the quick answer...

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

Zoho Creator: Sendmail a list of attachmentshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-send-mail-a-list-of-attachments.html

20 July 2023 domain, no user wall. The key here which the official documentation is missing is the .setParamName() but for those who have spent time to find this function, they'll already know this. void fn_Joel_Test() { /*** - tried with getUrl() but this doesn't...

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