Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 as 10.00%. And they need the decimal because sometimes they might offer 12.5%. But when it displays in a template, it isn't that pretty to look at: Instead, could they have 10% to display instead of 10.00%, and display 12.5% instead of 12.50%. Well...

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

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 An article on something that has taken me several days to get working: Get Zoho Books or Zoho Inventory that when an invoice is marked as paid, update 2 custom fields with the Payment Method, and the Payment Date. Why? This was requested by a customer...

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

ZohoRecruit: Create Linking Table for Candidates and Associated Job Openingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohorecruit-create-linking-table-for-candidates-and-associated-job-openings.html

08 February 2023 Ref: A single line text field Vacancy Ref: Another single line text field Candidate x JobOpening Name: Mandatory name field that we will use so as to create unique records The connection Within any syntax editor of ZohoRecruit (where you type the deluge...

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

ZohoCRM: Get All eBay Active Listingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-all-ebay-active-listings.html

01 March 2023 talking about getting all the active product listings from eBay for a specific client. Why? Our use-case scenario here is that we want to get an inventory level or stock check of all the products that are currently listed in a client's eBay store; we...

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

ZohoBooks: Error Code 15: Ensure Billing Address has less than 100 charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-code-15-ensure-billing-address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

18 September 2023 estimate in ZohoBooks will fail... Why? I have a function to push a ZohoCRM quote to a ZohoBooks estimate and a client asked that the address on the CRM record 'pulls through'. Sending the address in the same request however gives me the following...

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

Zoho Books: Error 7008: There are no contact persons associated with this Invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-error-7008-there-are-no-contact-persons-associated-with-this-invoice.html

07 March 2024 A quick article on how to get around this error. Why? The use-case here is that I am using the send invoice API and I kept getting this error despite including the customer_id and there was a primary contact on the customer record. This is from within...

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

ZohoCreator: Basic Widget with Zoho Datahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-basic-widget-with-zoho-data.html

14 March 2024 version of a JS widget used for a customer and before I added all the layers of complexity, I want to have here an example that demonstrates a basic search on a table of data and returns one record as a result. The use-case here is that we are enhancing...

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

Zoho Projects: Get All Eventshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-get-all-events.html

22 July 2024 A quick article because I couldn't find anything that documented this with a working example. Why? The use-case here is that we want to make a ZohoCreator page display events for this month from ZohoProjects. How? The bit that stumped me was making a...

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

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

20 March 2025 A frustrated article about an issue that took me a fair few hours to resolve. So I'm putting it here as I thought I covered this previously but couldn't find it on my website. This was previously titled something along the lines of truncating to 2...

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

PHP Script: Make your own Thumbnail Generator via APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/php-script-make-your-own-thumbnail-generator-via-api.html

29 May 2025 Looking for an online tool that will take an image and make a thumbnail copy? This article is for me if I ever want to recreate an online tool capable of receiving an image URL and which both generates and outputs a thumbnail image and makes it...

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

CSV Chart Generatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/csv-chart-generator.html?catid=40

04 September 2015 dubbed EventViewer Chart Generator. As the name suggests, I was looking for a free program that can take an exported CSV list from a standard MS Windows eventlog or eventviewer log and generate a chart from the data. What my program does is convert all...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Nested Catch Statementshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-nested-catch-statements.html

04 February 2025 who said this was not possible... and to deal with a scenario which exists for a client of mine. The use-case for my Cx is that they need documents converted from HTML to PDF — as in we send it a bit of code in HTML and we want a PDF file returned. I...

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

Terms & Conditionshttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/terms-conditions.html

30 May 2009 or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
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Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

17 September 2009 this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:...... The form above will post to itself but more importantly is the...

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

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 It's been difficult to find an easy solution to hide menu items from registered users. Finally, I found a solution that works 100% for me using the MetaMod tool without using any template hacks. The instructions on the metamod page are very vague so I...

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

Mediawiki Extension for Camtasia Studio SWF videoshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/mediawiki-extension-for-camtasia-studio-swf-videos.html

08 October 2009 Camtasia Studio SWF files in it's articles. Why Camtasia when there are other free options? We tried lots of FLV players that were usually branded or not free. These were awkward to configure a full screen button on the controls and do basic...

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

Windows 7: System Clock is constantly going out of synchttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-7-system-clock-is-constantly-going-out-of-sync.html

28 January 2010 The Issue People have reported that although they have manually set the date/time on their computer, this gets changed by the windows time server (time.windows.com) when connected to the Internet and for some reason it doesn't display the right...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Windows 7 Aero Featureshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-7-aero-features.html

27 April 2010 Thought I'd put something here as a lot of my clients and friends are all surprised by the Aero features and weren't aware that these existed in Windows Vista (and originally from Linux variants). Sometimes you may only have partial Aero effects. This...

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

RokDownloads Manager does not list fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/rokdownloads-manager-does-not-list-files.html

28 October 2010 this isn't a problem for those that don't use RokDownloads. The other day, I logged in to upload some new files and manage some of my downloadable files... Only to find that the Rokdownloads manager would not list any of my files!?! I am in the middle...

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

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html

29 March 2011 but boy what a mouthful, and it's not really iterating anymore. So it's "SSRS Hide results table if empty" though I will add that if you wanted to put a message instead of hiding the table then following the below will also let you do this...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB