SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html

03 June 2014 What? This article is so that I don't spend so long in googling what the TxScript referenced assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to...

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

Android Background Image Resolutionshttps://joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-background-image-resolutions.html

01 December 2014 What? A reference to what size an image background should be set to for various screen sizes. Why? A background image I was using was unedited at 1600x2133 (364kb) and was not displaying on smaller devices. Configuring drawables for each layout seemed...

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

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/select-count-distinct-name-from-table.html

24 September 2015 What? A quick article to remind me about this issue. Not sure whether it is specific to the Joomla Content Management System, but within the Joomla! CMS, an error 1054 comes up if you use the above statement. Why? The MySQL statement SELECT...

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

Make bootstrap carousel responsive to swipehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/bootstrap/make-bootstrap-carousel-responsive-to-swipe.html

14 December 2016 What? A quick reminder on how to make the carousel in bootstrap compatible with touch devices like smartphones and tablets. Why? Feed back was that the user was unimpressed with the image slideshow. You have to tap on the left and right symbols... How?...

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

Change div height to fit contenthttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/change-div-height-to-fit-content.html

19 December 2016 to: CSS HTML What? A quick article on how to get a div layer to increase height based on how a heading fits on a page. What? I have a heading like this: The code of this is: A long heading that wraps over several lines When I shrink the browser, I get a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to URL Parametershttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-url-parameters.html

09 March 2020 What? A quick article on converting a Map (associative array with keys and values) into a URL string to pass as URL parameters. How? Let's first define a map: m_Payload = Map(); m_Payload.put("client_id","my-unique-client-id");...

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

JComments errors in PHP 7: plgContentJComments and JCommentsACLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jcomments-errors-in-php-7.html

13 March 2020 What? During a site upgrade, the commenting extension for Joomla called JComments would return errors when using PHP version 7. This is a quick article to document what needed doing to fix the errors. How? First some errors: ERROR: plgContentJComments...

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

Zoho Deluge: Generate and Send a CSV via Emailhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-and-send-a-csv-via-email.html

16 June 2021 What? A super quick article to remind me how to generate and send a CSV as an attachment to an email. Why? Because I often get casually asked "oh and can you archive the data and email it to me every month"... How? Rather than just babble on about it,...

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

ZohoCRM GetRelatedRecords INVALID_DATAhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-getrelatedrecords-invalid_data.html

30 January 2025 What? A ridiculously quick article on resolving a zoho.crm.getRelatedRecords() combined with a zoho.crm.bulkUpdate issue. Why? Trying to be clever and reducing the API calls to go through a few thousand records and to update the related records. I was...

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

Zoho CRM: Updating a CRM record Custom Line Items using API v7https://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-updating-a-crm-record-using-api-v7.html

18 December 2024 What? This is a quick bit of code for my reference so that I don't have to keep finding a function that gives me the syntax of how to either create or update a record using invokeUrl. Why? Because my designers keep including custom fields in their...

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

Zoho Deluge: Nested Catch Statementshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-nested-catch-statements.html

04 February 2025 What? A really quick article on demonstrating a nested try...catch()... statement working in Zoho CRM. Why? To prove a point to ChatGPT who said this was not possible... and to deal with a scenario which exists for a client of mine. The use-case for my...

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

ZCRM Client Script: Correct Decimal Fields OnLoadhttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zcrm-client-script-correct-decimal-fields-onload.html

13 December 2023 What? This is an article detailing the client script to fix any fields which exceed their decimal places limit in ZohoCRM. Why? So we have a customer that has some decimal fields on the products module that are calculated and will sometimes return...

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

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

15 September 2009 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. http://www.yourdomain.com/?tp=1) If this doesn't work for you try this:...

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

Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

17 September 2009 without which your file upload processing won't work. The name of the file is important but you can call it what you want, in my case I've called it 'uploaded_file'. 2. Check that the destination directory is writable by Apache. This is the full path to...

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

Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in usershttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/using-metamod-to-hide-buttons-from-logged-in-users.html

22 September 2009 and select everything you want your registered users to see and then copy over to the newly created 'regmenu' module or what ever you called yours.) Make sure both menu modules are enabled. 2. Set the "Access Level" to 'public' and "Menu Items" to...

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

Change default order of weblinkshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/change-default-order-of-weblinks.html

15 November 2009 like it and nor do u if you've been trawling the web for this solution. archived => is or not approved => again params => what params? I couldn't find any A little more to change A-Z or Z-A change ASC (ascending) to DESC (descending) in the last bit of...

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

MySQL Data Type Reference Tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-data-type-reference-table.html

15 February 2010 A data type reference table. If you're designing a database then you don't need me to tell you what this is. My personal opinion is to always try to use the minimal type and length of the value required. For example, a comment of 500 words should only...

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

Joe's Unduplicater (JUD)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-unduplicater.html?catid=40

12 July 2010 file if I have the MP3 version as well Why didn't I just convert the lot and delete everything in the original folder? Well what if I don't? Then I have to go through a few hundred files manually checking that I have the converted version and deleting...

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

Calculating Percentagehttps://joellipman.com/articles/ecommerce/calculating-percentage.html

20 May 2010 of how to calculate a percentage. The context here is that I want a progress bar in one of my programs. To determine what percent a number is of a total number: (Progress So Far / Total Progress Units) * 100 = % or (Net Amount / Gross Amount) * 100 = %...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: eCommerce Systems
• Language: *

Joe's CSV Chart Generator (JCG)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joellipmans-csv-chart-generator.html?catid=40

26 May 2010 can take an exported CSV list from a standard MS Windows eventlog or eventviewer log and generate a chart from the data. What my program does is convert all the data into a settings and data file that can be used by the charting system AMCharts.com....

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