Getting the mysql where in delimited string to workhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/getting-the-mysql-where-in-delimited-string-to-work.html

02 January 2012 the statement "WHERE IN (c.RoomImages)", this is interpreted as a string and when converted to a number only retrieves the first value before the first comma. Consider the following, the first query is how MySQL interprets the query and the second is...

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

Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html

18 July 2012 document and then needing lines prefixed so that I can explain the code. What? Change contents of "original_file.txt" The first line of my code The second line of my code The third line of my code To "results_file.txt" 1: The first line of my code 2:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: *

SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html

04 April 2013 don't get that with Excel but you can still control the data range. How? My example is that I have an excel sheet where the first 10 rows are descriptions to the column, and then I have 38 columns ("A" to "AL"): In the data flow, click on the Excel...

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

SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

23 April 2013 Return (CR) or Line Feeds (LF) are being inserted, simply extract the entire row as a column and trim it. I separate out the first column as my index/key field so I can check if this is a valid data row (the blank ones may return special chars rather...

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

Convert Past Date to Time Ago in PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-past-date-to-time-ago-in-php.html

16 May 2019 7 seconds // full string 1 year 3 weeks 5 hours 7 seconds // where shown values are not zero Actually we just want the first two words of those strings: 3 days ago // where event is 3 days ago or just over but less than 4 days ago 1 week ago // where...

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

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

28 August 2020 to do this on. The part after Zoho is the top level domain (TLD) and will be either .COM, .EU or as per your region. If the first part of your URL says: https://zoho.com/ then use the endpoint https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v2/coql https://zoho.eu/ then...

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

Zoho Creator: Button on Report for Merging Multiple Selected Recordshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-button-on-report-for-merging-multiple-selected-records.html

06 December 2020 accepts a form of records Create a workflow that understands the function parameters Create a function Why are we doing this first? Well when I create a workflow, it will ask me to run a function, the Creator workflow process will then read what...

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

Zoho Creator: Add a subform while creating a recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-add-a-subform-while-creating-a-record.html

14 July 2021 Create a quote record and include a subform containing the line items. You may have tried code where you add a record first and then add the subform afterwards (insert into [...]) but it can be done all in one go. How? Here's a use case example which...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Writer: Button to Merge Template, Send, and Attachhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-writer-button-to-merge-template,-send,-and-attach.html

21 October 2021 Get the Merged Template ID (hexadecimal) Create the all-in-one button and function to generate and attach the file. First Create a CRM connection I'm going to create a Zoho OAuth connection with open scopes just to get a working example; I can then...

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

Zoho Creator: Change Radio into Tabshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-change-radio-into-tabs.html

22 October 2021 our own stylesheet and overriding certain CSS elements that the vanilla or out-of-the-box Zoho Creator ones provide. First, let's add a Notes field to the Creator form, I'm calling mine Note_CSS, then I have added a radio group called Tabs [NB: If you...

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

Zoho Deluge: Calculate start and end of Daylight Savings Timehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-calculate-start-and-end-of-daylight-savings-time.html

07 December 2021 the world. US (Except Arizona, Hawaii and US Territories?): DST Start Starts Second Sunday in March at 2:00 DST End Ends First Sunday in November at 2:00 // // Starts Second Sunday in March at 2:00 v_FirstMonthDate =...

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

Zoho Deluge: Text (SMS) reminder using Twilio API (LocalSense)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-text-sms-using-twilio-api-localsense.html

16 December 2021 > Manage > Active numbers Note the number you want to use (they have friendly numbers but I use the full number in the first column) Sending a Text/SMS message // // using the account SID you obtained in the steps above v_Account_SID =...

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

Zoho Creator: Radio group into Calendar Carouselhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-radio-group-into-calendar-carousel.html

09 March 2022 line) Starting Date (link name: Starting_Date || type Date) Selected Date (link name: Selected_Date || type Date) The CSS So first of all the value of each radio item will be populated using deluge and what's important to note here is that each...

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

Zoho Analytics: Determine profits from invoices and purchase ordershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-determine-profits-from-invoices-and-purchase-orders.html

03 November 2022 altogether. I had to break this down into several queries to generate the dataset, then use these as pseudo-subqueries. The first task was to determine the cost of each item purchased; including shipping and tax. The second is to associate these to the...

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

ZohoCRM: Integrate ChatGPT to ZohoZIAhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-integrate-chatgpt-to-zohozia.html

06 March 2023 my previous article for ZohoCliq; let's use what we know to develop a ZohoZIA for a demo system. There are several steps, so first we will set up the ZIA action "Ask ChatGPT" using the GUI, then we will capture the question using Deluge code and query...

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

Zoho Deluge: Proper Case for Nameshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-proper-case-for-names.html

13 July 2023 This is an open article without any completion in mind; to set the proper case of a name, as in capitalize the first letter, lower case the rest but then with exceptions. Why? Some of the Zoho Apps are incredibly case-sensitive and consider some records...

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

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

04 October 2023 to create a Creator record but I'm going to use the shortcode function zoho.creator.createRecord() and wanted to update the first name of a name field but I was getting the following error: { "code": 2945, "description": "EXTRA_KEY_FOUND_IN_JSON" } How?...

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

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

14 November 2023 using a backslash. Further, you must encode the value. Example: Consider the search term: ((Last_Name:equals:Burns,B)and(First_Name:starts_with:M)) After escaping comma and parenthesis in the value:...

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

PHP Script: Make your own Thumbnail Generator via APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/php-script-make-your-own-thumbnail-generator-via-api.html

29 May 2025 a client with about 10k images of products that they want to appear in a dropdown menu of a JavaScript widget. When the user first loads up the webpage containing the widget, 10k images are downloaded. I have put in a lazy loading process where it will...

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

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

04 February 2025 means that the Cx business halts. In order to add a bit of clustering, we have added a bit of code for it to try one server first, if there is any kind of an error with that server, it tries a second server... We now want to add a third server to try if...

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