Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 customer wanted payment method and payment date to appear on the invoice. How? This sounds rather straightforward, write a function that given an invoice, checks the customer payments and updates the custom fields. Executing the function this worked as...

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

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

07 December 2012 Along with my DataJumble function and DataTumble procedure which also help scramble database tables sent to suppliers/developers, this is a function which simply finds random characters and inserts these. I would recommend using the DataTumble script...

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

Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 This is a quick note on one reason you may get the above error in a Joomla CMS environment. Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in /public_html/index.php How? Not really a solution here because this is indicating that the system can't find...

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

T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

20 August 2014 were in a solution and I thought I'd note them on my site so I can refer to them more easily. How? Let's start with a function that just converts a string of words delimited by spaces to a table: CREATE FUNCTION dbo.[ufn_StringToTable] ( @StringInput...

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

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 Merge, which opens Writer, then has to click on various settings and run the Mail Merge; then has to click on "execute function after merge" and select the function to run (this would initially attach the file to the CRM record). This wasn't working...

• 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 of type "String" with a prompt message of "What is your question?" click on "Save" click on "Done" Now click on "Edit Function" under "Context Handler Function" We're going to use the following deluge code for our first pass at this awesome...

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

Drop If Object Existshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/drop-if-object-exists.html

03 August 2012 Some people have been suggesting you can use "CREATE OR REPLACE... VIEW... FUNCTION" but my SQL Server 2008 Management Studio doesn't like this and refuses to understand what I'm trying to do. Why? As this data seemed to be across various websites, I...

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

Android: Function to let user take photo or choose existinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-function-to-let-user-take-photo-or-choose-existing.html

04 November 2014 A quick article on a function to allow the user to take a photo using their built-in camera or to choose an existing photo from their gallery. Why? I wanted both options to be available to the user and for it to replace a displayed image in an...

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

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

13 December 2023 Give it a name, I'm calling mine "Products - Correct Decimals" Give it a description, I'm giving it the one I have in the function header below Category is "Module" Page is "Edit Page (Standard)" Module is "Products" Layout is "Standard" Event Type is...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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 with each row Account for strings containing double-quotes (and commas to ignore) Sort the resulting object array How? The function with comments: - Uses deprecated XMLHttpRequest to get file contents - Loops through each row and splits by commas (not...

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

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 This is an article which lists the functions necessary to process Google Authentication using OAuth2.0. These functions allow a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired. Update...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• 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 Just a quick note to refine a function that will take a date in the past and return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Why? Here are some examples of what we want to achieve: 1 year 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours 6...

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

ZohoCRM: Daily Follow Up and Remind Record Owner to Convert Leadhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-follow-up-and-remind-record-owner-to-convert-lead.html

14 May 2024 code but here we are. Code is our friend. How? So we'll run a workflow that triggers on the creation of a lead and runs a function which will simultaneously create a task with a reminder both on popup and email which repeats every day until an end date....

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

Zoho Books: Estimates/Quotes: Accept & Decline Buttons on Templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-estimates-quotes-accept-decline-buttons-on-template.html

04 November 2024 time finding fields that can be 'placeheld', other than what the interface offers, into the template. the CRM webhook API function So let's do my favorite method of creating a REST API function in CRM Login to ZohoCRM > Setup > Functions > New Function...

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

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

14 December 2016 Put this in a JS: /*! Bootstrap Carousel Swipe jQuery plugin v1.1 | https://github.com/maaaaark/bcSwipe | MIT License */ !function(t){ t.fn.bcSwipe=function(e){ var n={threshold:50}; return e&&t.extend(n,e),this.each( function(){ function e(t){...

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

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

13 March 2020 has a deprecated constructor in /plugins/content/jcomments/jcomments.php on line 25 Fix: // change on line 27 function plgContentJComments(&$subject, $config) // to function __construct(&$subject, $config) ERROR: JCommentsACL Deprecated: Methods with...

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

Could not instantiate mail functionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/could-not-instantiate-mail-function.html

09 May 2011 Quick Fix Check that this error isn't resolved by just changing the Mailer (Joomla > Global Configuration > Mailer settings). Alternate between PHPmail and sendmail just to check this isn't the problem. If the problem is still there then check the...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 innerText, innerHTML Methods - The following Methods will be used throughout this tutorial. (comparable to built-in functions for AHK) alert(), getElementById(), getElementsByName(), getElementsByTagName(), focus(), click() Before we begin, this...

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

ZohoCRM: Process all records of a modulehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-process-all-records-of-a-module.html

24 August 2021 record twice. Why? Whether you have a few hundred records, or a few hundred thousand records, we sometimes want to write a function that will check each record and mark it so that the process doesn't repeat on records that have already been checked....

• 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 This is an article to document a function used in Zoho Creator to retrieve the Product IDs of all the active products in a client's eBay store. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to retrieve a list of all the listed active products in a fixed price...

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