Forum Ruleshttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/forum-rules.html

31 May 2009 a warning is necessary to explain it to you. If I do not give a warning, I will skip ahead to the next step in the penalty list. Muting - This is where you are not able to talk on the board. You may still view it. Temporary Ban - This is where you are...

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Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in usershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/using-metamod-to-hide-buttons-from-logged-in-users.html

22 September 2009 enabled. 2. Set the "Access Level" to 'public' and "Menu Items" to 'none' for both of your menu modules. 3. In the modules list, locate the one named metamod and copy it. (Only there if you installed the metamod module) 4. Edit newly copied metamod and...

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• Category: Joomla
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Win32 Constantshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/win32-constants.html

05 July 2011 = $0125 Const WM_MENUCOMMAND = $0126 Const WM_CTLCOLORMSGBOX = $0132 Const WM_CTLCOLOREDIT = $0133 Const WM_CTLCOLORLISTBOX = $0134 Const WM_CTLCOLORBTN = $0135 Const WM_CTLCOLORDLG = $0136 Const WM_CTLCOLORSCROLLBAR = $0137 Const WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Country Lookup by IP address CSVhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/country-lookup-by-ip-address.html

17 March 2013 as documentation for one of the data sources available to download for FREE from this site. Why? It's useful to have a CSV list of all the IP ranges and their allocated country. Our use here was to create a refreshable country by IP address list that we...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
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Android Java: Remove first two entries from Google News feed in SimpleRssReaderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-java-remove-first-two-entries-from-google-news-feed-in-simplerssreader.html

24 October 2014 to check for a description (the first two items do not have one). The following will also return a publishing date: Find the List function in: PcWorldRssParser.java (readFeed) and replace with private List readFeed(XmlPullParser parser) throws...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AndroidOS
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Zoho Deluge - Some Useful Regular Expressionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-some-useful-regular-expressions.html

31 May 2019 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 =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge - Modify the product line items in an invoice modulehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-modify-the-product-line-items-in-an-invoice-module.html

22 August 2019 "987654321098765432" and p_InvoiceID is the ID of the invoice record: v_Index = 0; m_Update = Map(); l_ProductItems = List(); r_InvoiceDetails = Map(); r_InvoiceDetails = zoho.crm.getRecordById("Invoices",p_InvoiceID); for each r_ProductLineItem in...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Autohotkey - Chrome Profiles in Alphabetical Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-chrome-profiles-in-alphabetical-order.html

07 January 2020 (Official Build) (64-bit) AutoHotkey v1.1.30.01 What? This is an article to create a standalone application which lists all the Google Chrome Profiles on your Windows 10 workstation in alphabetical order. Why? This program will be redundant if Google...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
• Language: en-GB

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

06 February 2020 A quick article on how to debug some errors in Zoho. Why? I wanted a general note to list certain errors that we get when we do certain things in Zoho but didn't want to write a separate page for each minor issue. How? So I'm going to try and list...

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Zoho Deluge: Push Multi-Select Picklist containing Commas from CRM to Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-push-multi-select-picklist-containing-commas-from-crm-to-creator.html

20 April 2020 A very quick article on how to push a multi-select picklist from CRM to Creator. Why? We're trying to create a record in Creator off a button on the CRM Potential/Deal record. The CRM module has a multi-select picklist which will use commas to delimit...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 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 this code, I would get the error: Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTION expression Another error you...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 following uses the built-in functionality of Zoho Creator and could be seen as a 'Pure CSS' feature. I'm aiming to make a list of capabilities that can be done without loading another framework considering that Zoho Creator has their own version of...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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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 as "void") for Arguments Specify a parameter name of your choosing, in our example I am going to prefix it with "l_" (for list) and the plural of what kind of records I am sending as parameters (in this case "Quotes"). As the actual parameter value,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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ZohoCRM: Process all records of a modulehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-process-all-records-of-a-module.html

24 August 2021 we order this by modified time. When the checkbox gets updated, this modifies the record and puts it at the bottom of the list. In a nutshell: [Optional]: Deactivate any workflows that this process would affect Go to the Module Layout and drag a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge: Handle Commas between Quotes in a CSV (and New Lines)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-handle-commas-between-quotes-in-a-csv.html

26 August 2021 info v_FormattedString; // yields: 00011,Joel Lipman,"Flat 8|mySpecialComma| House Corner",Brummieland // split into a list (string delimited by commas) l_StringParts = v_FormattedString.toList(); // show me column 3 with myspecialcomma replaced back to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Order Notifications via Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-order-notifications-via-webhook.html

20 September 2021 API even though I'm aiming for the Platform Notifications API... Why? A follow on from my article Zoho Creator: Push to eBay Listings. I have a Creator app that needs to receive the orders from an eBay account as soon as the order or transaction is made...

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

13 October 2021 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 item listing. The example below is a function which, if given the page number...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 free TimeZone API (one that returns a timezone given a lat/lng). The added feature is that we are going to loop through picklist options (500 timezones) in CRM to select the most relevant one. If all this fails, then it defaults to a module called...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 receive some strings containing "&" or " " and obviously want to display these as decoded HTML entities. (Zoho if you're listening) Ideally, Zoho may add this to their zoho.encryption namespace such as zoho.encryption.htmldecode(string). But at time...

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Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 is a pretty cool feature in Zoho CRM that I hadn't used much but definitely worth an article. The ability to block field picklist options from being selected based on the profile of a user. Why? There were several alternatives we considered beforehand...

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• Category: Zoho
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