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 = r_NewSoDetails.get("salesorder_id"); v_NewRefNum = r_NewSoDetails.get("salesorder_number"); // // build up a reference map from the line items of the newly created sales order m_NewLineItems = Map(); for each r_NewLineItem in...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge: Convert Xero Date (Unix Timestamp) to Standard Date Stringhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-xero-date-unix-timestamp-to-standard-date-string.html

04 May 2020 Zoho CRM Invoices and noticed that Xero stores its dates in Unix Timestamps. How? We're going to filter out the unix seconds from the date provided by Xero then apply a toTime() function to it. v_XeroTime="/Date(1586995200000+0000)/"; v_StartIndex =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 A_LoopFileName, "." A_LoopFileExt, "") a_ThisFileName := StrSplit( v_ThisFileName, A_Space, ".") ; remove converter comments from file name v_NewName := "" Loop % a_ThisFileName.MaxIndex() { v_FoundUnderScore := InStr( a_ThisFileName[A_Index], "_") if(...

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Windows 10: Shortcut Apps to Settingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-10-shortcut-apps-to-settings.html

30 July 2020 to the setting itself, just displays it to the user for them to make the choice. Why? I needed a command that can be run from the command-line in an AutoHotkey app to open the notifications page of the Windows 10 Settings panel to allow users to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
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Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTIONhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/expecting-zc_subform_250-expression-found-collection.html

19 October 2020 anything on the WWW to document this error. Why? During a data migration, I was using a custom function to copy all the data from one app to another. The specific form was for "Leads" which contained a subform with a product line item list. If I run...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Creator Page: Toggle On/Off Switch: Hide/Display a Divhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-page-toggle-on-off-switch-hide-display-a-div.html

22 October 2020 and paste into a Zoho Creator Page. Be sure to copy the code directly into a page and NOT to be in a function that is called from the Zoho Creator page. Functions are read by Zoho and certain CSS attributes (such as position and float) will be removed...

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Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to HTML Table without a FOR loophttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-html-table-without-a-for-loop.html

11 January 2021 quick article on converting a Map string into a HTML table without using a for each loop. Why? I have quite a big response from our CRM that hits a statement execution limit if I use a for loop. I have a map with 3 columns: first_name, last_name, and...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge: Sort a Map by a specific fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-sort-a-map-by-a-specific-field.html

29 January 2021 // field we want to sort by v_SortingKey = ifnull(r_Record.get("date"),""); if(!isNull(v_SortingKey)) { // as this is a date from CRM (atomic date format), arrange so it can be sorted alphabetically in reverse order v_DatePart =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Windows OS: Alt Codes / Symbols / Special Charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-os-alt-codes-symbols-special-characters.html

03 June 2021 characters not found on your keyboard or on a Qwerty UK/US keyboard layout. Why? Being able to type international characters from other alphabets is necessary when dealing with languages other than English. Preserving files in unicode or utf-8 encoding...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
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Zoho CRM & Zoho Creator: Query returns some fields missing other data on the recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-creator-query-returns-some-fields-missing-other-data-on-the-record.html

26 July 2021 like myself can misread the documentation. This particular article shows you how to customize the search results or response from using zoho.creator.getRecordById(). Why? My use case scenario is that I was trying to build a related list in Zoho CRM with...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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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 permission to access the Quote Conversion Mapping 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...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge: Calculate Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds between two Timestampshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-calculate-days,-hours,-minutes,-seconds-between-two-timestamps.html

21 September 2021 which will return the Unix seconds. // the now time v_NowTime = zoho.currenttime; // // correction: I want to specify a from datetime v_NowTime = '2021-09-21 21:27:15'; // // now specify a to datetime (we're doing a working day so we add 1 business day)...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks: Please ensure that the shipping_address has less than 100 characters.https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-please-ensure-that-the-shipping_address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

22 September 2021 // v_AddressIndex = 0; m_ShippingAddress = Map(); // set field api names that we will read from and write to l_CrmShippingAddress = {"Shipping_Street","Shipping_Street_2","Shipping_City","Shipping_State","Shipping_Code","Shipping_Country"};...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Creator / Shopify: Get all Active Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-get-all-active-products.html

12 October 2021 "UNKNOWN"); m_Sku_IDs.put(v_ProductSKU, r_ShopifyProduct.get("id")); // // getting the last ID from the Shopify sort instead of making Zoho sort a list v_LastID = r_ShopifyProduct.get("id"); } } } // // output info m_Sku_IDs; info m_Sku_IDs.size(); }...

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

22 October 2021 field to the Creator form, I'm calling mine Note_CSS, then I have added a radio group called Tabs [NB: If you rename it from "Tabs" to something else, all CSS references need to be changed as well to the new name and follow the syntax...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Copy Subform to other Subformshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-copy-subform-to-other-subforms.html

17 November 2021 button which copies it to the remaining working days. How? So I have a form with 6 subforms which list staff/employee shifts from Monday to Saturday. The form I have looks something like the following: and displays as something like this: The code I...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Analytics: Setup DataSource via FTP Connectionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-setup-datasource-via-ftp-connection.html

12 January 2022 Monthly: Schedule with Timezone specified (click on the "(Change)" link next to timezone: Error(s) Unable to import file from the FTP server: Unable to connect to the FTP server:

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Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Notification and Create Shopify Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-notification-and-create-shopify-order.html

21 January 2022 This is an article documenting how to parse the notification from eBay and using it to create an order in Shopify. Why? Previously, we would receive an eBay notification and create an order record in Zoho Creator. We did the same for when Shopify would...

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

22 January 2022 This is the function to get the line item order/transaction from eBay if you give it the eBay Item ID as a parameter. Why? Mostly for debugging but here's the code that will quickly get the XML of a GetItemTransactions request to eBay. How? You'll need...

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

27 January 2022 A very quick article to document a HTML Entity decoder in Zoho Creator. Why? Sometimes when receiving data from a third-party, we may receive some strings containing "&" or " " and obviously want to display these as decoded HTML entities. (Zoho if...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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