Calculate Aspect Ratiohttps://www.joellipman.com/graphic-design/calculate-aspect-ratio.html

17 January 2019 What? So this is a quick article on how to maintain an aspect ratio when resizing an image. How? These are the calculations to work out the new height given the width or the new width given the height: (original height / original width) x new width =...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Graphic Design
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Regex to Strip all non-numeric charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-to-strip-all-non-numeric-characters.html

25 March 2019 What A quick post on how I managed to build a regex to extract all non-numeric characters (all non-digits) from a string. Why? I only want the digits/numbers from a string: v_PaymentTerms = "Credit Note - 30 Days"; // we want the 30 from the above...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get Current User IDhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-current-user-id.html

08 April 2019 What? This is a quick article on different ways to get the current user ID in Zoho through code. How? I'm not a fan of method #1 but I only started developing in Zoho recently when API v1 was already being deprecated (end of life at the end of this...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Locationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-user-timezone-country-and-location.html

03 June 2019 What? A quick article just as a note to get the users country information from a third-party API based on the given IP address. How? Well this is just a list of free 3rd-party APIs and the below code is dependent on these being online and working... The...

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

Zoho Deluge - Store and repopulate a multi lookup list in Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-store-and-repopulate-a-multi-lookup-list-in-creator.html

28 June 2019 What? A quick reminder on how I got a working snippet of code to store the entries in the lookup already selected, check against another table/form for valid options, repopulate the list with the selected item and filtering the options available for...

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

MS Excel - Open CSV with Long Numbershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/ms-excel-open-csv-with-long-numbers.html

23 July 2019 What? This is a quick reminder for myself on opening a CSV in MS Excel but without converting long numbers into exponential notations (which are incorrectly rounded anyway). My Data: Account ID,Name,Phone,Record ID...

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

PHP - Remove newlines and spaces from StyleSheethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-remove-newlines-and-spaces-from-stylesheet.html

03 January 2020 What? This is a quick note on how to reduce a whole bunch of CSS into a single line without unnecessary spaces and new lines. Why? What I have: #copyright a{ margin: 10px 0 0 85px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px 0px rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.3); } What I want:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Pad with leading Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-pad-with-leading-zeros.html

07 February 2020 What? There may be other articles out there documenting this but I can't keep trying to find these in Google so referring to my own website, this is a doddle for me to find each time. Why? I have to do this so often that it deserves an article. Though...

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

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

09 March 2020 a map: m_Payload = Map(); m_Payload.put("client_id","my-unique-client-id"); m_Payload.put("redirect_uri","https://www.joellipman.com"); m_Payload.put("response_type","code"); m_Payload.put("scope","my_api_scopes"); m_Payload.put("prompt","login");...

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

JComments errors in PHP 7: plgContentJComments and JCommentsACLhttps://www.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: *

Joomla: Remove IDs from URLs for out-of-the-box SEFhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-remove-ids-from-urls.html

14 March 2020 on how to remove the ID numbers from your Joomla website addresses for search engine friendly URLs. // What I have www.joellipman.com/index.php?option=com_content&category_id=4&article_id=123-article-alias // With URL rewriting enabled...

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

Joomla CMS: Register to Read Morehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-cms-register-to-read-more.html

11 April 2020 What? This article is a quick note on how to change your Joomla CMS "Read More" to "Register to Read More" all without hacking away at the Joomla core. Why? Well a few hacks may be necessary because not only do we want to restrict read more content...

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

COVID-19: Working from Homehttps://www.joellipman.com/covid-19-work-from-home.html

05 July 2020 Ergonomic adjective "relating to or designed for efficiency and comfort in the working environment." So it's pretty important not to be slouching over the coffee table for hours or days on end. I was waiting to move house during 2020 but then a virus...

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

Zoho Deluge: Push a value to a datetime field in CRMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-push-a-value-to-a-datetime-field-in-crm.html

10 September 2021 What? A very quick article to show pushing the date and time to ZohoCRM or ZohoCreator. Why? You may have received an error that goes something like: datatype: datetime How? Here are some formatting examples: Creator to CRM: v_CreatorTime =...

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

Zoho Finance Suite Schedule: PATTERN NOT MATCHEDhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-finance-suite-schedule-pattern-not-matched.html

12 June 2023 What? A super quick article on resolving this issue if it ever appears again. Why? At time of print, this error was happening to schedules in Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, and Zoho Subscriptions. Unless you can monitor when these type of schedules are...

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