DataTumble - Randomize Data Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datatumble-randomize-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 FETCH NEXT FROM @UpdateCursor INTO @Data WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN -- OPEN RandomID SET @random = CEILING(RAND()* CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),@NumberLeft) ) SELECT @ChosenID = MAX(ID ) FROM (SELECT TOP (@random) ID FROM #Scramble WHERE Chosen IS NULL ) A...

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

DataScramble - Randomizing data rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datascramble-randomizing-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 2 - LEN(@RandSeconds))) + '.' + STUFF(@RandMSeconds, 1, 0, REPLICATE('0', 3 - LEN(@RandMSeconds))); SET @TimeVal = CONVERT(time, @TimeVal, 14); END -- DETERMINE WHICH DATE PARTS WERE SUBMITTED IF @TimeMatch=1 AND @DateMatch=0 SET @NewVal = @TimeVal;...

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

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html

05 August 2014 takes data from a source database and puts it in staging in the exact form it came through. Our transform package will convert the data and output it to the target system. For our package to decode what "M" means, it needs to look this up in a table on...

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

SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 code, the entity code and then the inner SRL text which should be |, if you try to apply you should be prompted to convert to use gold characters: Test the XET export and you should get something like: 5826|England Almost! If the code and it's short...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 null. This doesn't have much affect on point-to-point conversions and strings but what if the value is blank and I try to convert that date of birth from SQL format (yyyy-mm-dd) to European format (dd/mm/yyyy)? See the following: -- assuming value of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
• Language: *

Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

24 October 2014 searched location (db must return at least 1 zone to know what country it is in - future development will be separate: convert lat/lng to country) rules are currently based on country. Future development will associate these with governing bodies...

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

Import Excel CSV file as JavaScript arrayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/import-excel-csv-file-as-javascript-array.html

05 October 2015 label1,label2 item1a,item2a item1c,"item2c,c" item1b,item2b What I want: To read the file (stored on the server) and convert to a JavaScript array of objects var my_object_array = [ { my_col1_val: 'item1a', my_col2_val: 'item2a' }, { my_col1_val:...

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

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 db_name CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE utf8-general-ci; // set text fields to utf8 SET NAMES 'utf8'; This does nothing: // convert the foreign character using PHP to htmlentities $my_description = htmlentities($my_description); $my_description =...

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

Zoho Deluge - Some Useful Regular Expressionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-some-useful-regular-expressions.html

31 May 2019 with some other pretty useful regular expressions at https://zoholic.blogspot.com/2015/04/some-usefull-regex-in-zoho.html: Convert a string of characters to a list: v_MyString = "12345"; l_StringValues =...

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

Zoho CRM/Creator - Common Errors & Gotchashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-common-errors-gotchas.html

06 February 2020 r_Response.get("item").get("item_id"); // yields: Value is empty and 'get' function cannot be applied Solution: I have to convert the node into a map: info m_Response.get("item").toMap().get("item_id"); // yields: 123456789012345678 Problem: Inserting a...

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

Zoho Deluge: Associate/Link an Invoice to a Sales Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-associate-link-an-invoice-to-a-sales-order.html

10 March 2020 was no documentation that I could find that describes how to do this. When an invoice is created, not by clicking on the "convert sales order to invoice" button, I needed a way to programmatically link the sales order to the invoice. Why? The...

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

Zoho Creator: Receive JSON via a Shopify Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-json-via-a-shopify-webhook.html

15 July 2021 further below in this article) v_Webhook_Key = "aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeffff1111222233334444555566667777888899990000"; // // convert the data from Shopify webhook to a map m_Payload = crmAPIRequest.toMap(); // // get webhook signature v_ShopifySignature =...

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

Zoho Creator: Assign an integration field value with an integration valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-assign-an-integration-field-value-with-an-integration-value.html

27 July 2021 to find: an integration field returns an ID as a string. If you want to assign it to an integration field, you have to convert it to a number with .toLong(). Say I have an integration field on my form called "CRM Account" with field link name "Account";...

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

Zoho CRM: Permission Denied for Quote Conversion Mappinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-permission-denied-for-quote-conversion-mapping.html

02 September 2021 page... Why? I wanted to map a billing street 2 and shipping street 2 from the Account module to the Quote module, then on convert, to map these to the Sales Order in CRM. As my client's sales team would only create sales orders in CRM and don't use the...

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

Zoho Creator / eBay: Get all Active Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-ebay-get-all-active-products.html

13 October 2021 l_OutputFields.add("TotalNumberOfEntries"); m_Params.put("OutputSelector",l_OutputFields); // // convert to xml and replace root nodes x_Params = m_Params.toXML(); x_Params = x_Params.toString().replaceFirst("",""); x_Params =...

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

Zoho Deluge: Generate List of TimeZoneshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-list-of-timezones.html

19 October 2021 A quick article to take a list of options from a HTML select element and convert to a Zoho Deluge list that will eventually be used to populate a dropdown. Why? Because I find myself doing this quite a bit and wanted a quick way of extracting a SELECT...

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

Zoho CRM/Deluge: Get TimeZone Based on GeoCoded Address (Lat/Lng)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-deluge-get-timezone-based-on-geocoded-address-lat-lng.html

15 December 2021 be auto-populated... How? As mentioned, we're going to use the address on the Lead record; use Zoho's GeoCode function to convert this into a latitude and longitude, then we're going to use a free TimeZone API (one that returns a timezone given a...

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

Zoho Creator: eBay: Get Item Transactionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-ebay-get-item-transaction.html

22 January 2022 m_Params.put("Pagination",m_Pagination); //m_ActiveList.put("Sort","ItemID"); m_Params.put("ItemID",p_ItemID); // // convert to xml and replace root nodes x_Params = m_Params.toXML(); x_Params = x_Params.toString().replaceFirst("",""); x_Params =...

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

Zoho Deluge: a HTML Entity Decoderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-a-html-entity-decoder.html

27 January 2022 l_HtmlEntityChars = v_HtmlEntityChars.toList(); // // add these exceptions (quotes) which wouldn't convert to a list l_HtmlEntityNames.add("quo"); l_HtmlEntityNames.add("apos"); l_HtmlEntityChars.add("\""); l_HtmlEntityChars.add("'"); // // build a map...

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

Zoho Inventory & eBay Picture Services: UploadSiteHostedPictureshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-ebay-picture-services-uploadsitehostedpictures.html

31 March 2022 m_Params.put("PictureName","OhBeautifulMe"); m_Params.put("PictureSet","Supersize"); // // convert to xml and replace root nodes x_Params = m_Params.toXML(); x_Params = x_Params.toString().replaceFirst("",""); x_Params =...

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