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 on how to remove the first two entries from a RSS feed produced by a bunch of java files collectively known as "SimpleRssReader. Why? The original file reads of a feed from PCWorld.com. I adapted this to read a google news rss feed and the first two...

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• Category: AndroidOS
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Accessing Apimo WebService APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/accessing-apimo-webservice-api.html

29 March 2016 CURLOPT_URL, $apimo_url.'?'.$apimo_message_xml); // set url curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); // For debugging purposes (read CURL manual for nore info) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30); // Timeout options curl_setopt($ch,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: API Miscellaneous
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PHP Issue: simplexml_load_string parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !https://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-issue-simplexml-load-string-parser-error-input-is-not-proper-utf-8-indicate-encoding.html

02 August 2016 PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): 2 in /home/public_html/my_folder/my_xml_processing_script.php on line 160 should read 2 How? A two-step process, my issue was with how the file was downloaded with cURL. The XML node should be baños. The initial...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
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Zoho CRM: APIv2 using PHP & cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-apiv2-using-php-curl.html

30 January 2019 to manage OAuth v2 and generate the refresh and access tokens. The second snippet of code below is using the functions to read data from Zoho CRM and to write data back to the system. Why? I've rewritten this code a few times and want to store the...

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 this script can access it. The same goes for the access token, store it off the web but where this script can access it (read/write). // Location of private key on your server (JSON downloadable from Google) $api['keys']['private']['file'] = '.json'; //...

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

Zoho Deluge - InvokeConnector and useful snippetshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-invokeconnector-and-useful-snippets.html

23 January 2020 } List CRM Users (ActiveUsers) from Creator or other Zoho App Note the use of .toMap() required for other apps to read this JSON string response: l_Users= List(); m_UserType = Map(); m_UserType.put("type","ActiveUsers"); r_Response =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Download uploaded file and attach to Sales Order in Zoho Bookshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-uploaded-file-and-attach-to-sales-order-in-zoho-books.html

15 May 2020 and then to attach it to a Sales Order in Zoho Books. Why? Because it took me so long to find out how to do this even after reading the official documentation and going through the online discussion forums to build this solution. As of May 2020, this is...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 icon Enter a Connection name (for this example I will call it "CRM API v2") Select the appropriate scope(s): ZohoCRM.coql.READ Required! ZohoCRM.modules.{module_name}.{operation_type} or ZohoCRM.modules.all Click Create and Connect You will be prompted...

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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 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 automatically. The code has to be pasted...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: info/alert/modal/popup notification for any userhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-info-alert-modal-popup-notification-for-any-user.html

06 November 2020 based on the action using values from the form invoking it but for generic messages you could get the "Notify" page to read from a form/report: Click on the plus icon to create a new form Select a blank form, let's call it "Notifications". Drag a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 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 datatype of a parameter I'm sending to the function. So in "Edit this application" > go to Workflow > Functions > New...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Projects: Add a Time Log to an Issue using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-add-a-time-log-to-an-issue-using-deluge.html

30 April 2021 Give a lower connection name, eg. "joels_connector" Select the scope ZohoProjects.timesheets.ALL as a minimum (or CREATE/READ): 2. Code to push Time Log entry to Zoho Projects: Example #1: Pushing a time log with a specified start date/time (requires...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM: Update a custom field in line items / product details using REST API v2.1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-update-a-custom-field-in-line-items-product-details.html

17 May 2021 type :POST parameters:m_Data.toString() connection:"myconnection" ]; or if converted to JSON, the request would read as: { "data": { "Subject": "My Test Quote", "Quoted_Items": [ { "Product_Name": "123456789012345678", "Quantity": 5, "Discount": 0,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Get SalesPersonshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-get-salespersons.html

30 August 2021 } Additional Note(s): Scope(s) required: for the connection I think it was ZohoBooks.settings.READ for the sales persons and then ZohoCRM.modules.all for the CRM sales orders.

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Prevent Endless Loops On User Input of a Fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-prevent-endless-loops-on-user-input-of-a-field.html

19 September 2021 every time we want to tweak the code. There are also cases we don't want to use a standalone function as we want the code to read from the input fields dynamically and in real-time. To this end, I create a field called "Audit_Change" and then I add to...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Get Books Currency and Tax IDshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-get-books-currency-and-tax-ids.html

24 September 2021 or https://books.zoho.com. You will also need your own CRM to Books connection name (joel_books) with scope to read settings: // our made up books org id but enter your own v_BooksOrgID=20210924095; // // get currencies m_Currencies = Map();...

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

Zoho CRM: Get Unique Values of a Text Fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-get-unique-values-of-a-field.html

08 October 2021 one of the column values into the target How? So this is my plan: Setup a connector to CRM with the scopes ZohoCRM.coql.READ and ZohoCRM.modules.ALL Build up a SQL query, or more specifically, a COQL - CRM Object Query Language Try using distinct on a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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 type :POST parameters:x_Params headers:m_Headers ]; // // output response info r_ResponseXML; /* // // if successful then read the response if(r_ResponseXML.contains("Success")) { // // parse the data v_MainNode = "Item"; x_MainNode =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge and Wordpress/WooCommerce API: Get All Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-and-wordpress-woocommerce-api-get-all-products.html

15 April 2024 in Zoho Inventory and this feeds the website. More than often, however, this request comes in when the customer has already been setting their Zoho environment up and the Wordpress site has the more information. How? So first, this article shows you how...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Render to PDF with margins and page numbershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-render-to-pdf-with-margins-and-page-numbers.html

07 May 2024 There are already articles out there that document this but I use this more and more and would rather just find it on my site than going through multiple bookmarks. Why? This use-case is for a customer who simply wanted a quote template to be rendered...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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