SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html

19 July 2011 situation is that we are replacing a website-application with a single SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS 2008 R2) report. We're using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS VS2008) with Team Foundation Server (TFS VS2010) and connecting to an...

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

SSIS Convert a string into a datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-convert-a-string-into-a-date.html

14 March 2013 situation. This is a quick article on how I got time conversion working in an SSIS package which read from a text file. Note that the example below converts a string in European Date Format (ie. "ddmmyyyy" to "dd/mm/yyyy"). Also, my data flow imports...

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

URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

06 May 2019 feature where a Title/Name value is converted to a search-engine friendly URL alias and is unique in the database. Ok that's a long sentence; let me try this: When I save a record in JoomlaCMS or WordpressCMS It creates a unique name to use in URLs I...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get Refresh/Access Token API v2https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-refresh-access-token.html

17 July 2019 Zoho Deluge code (so within Zoho Creator, CRM or Books) without XML calls. Why? I find myself using this more and more now that API v1 is on the way out and Zoho Deluge by itself is limited somewhat with regards to functionality and record editing when...

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

Zoho Deluge: Get Image Uploaded in Creator Formhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-image-uploaded-in-creator-form.html

14 July 2020 in a form to display in a report or on another page. Why? There might be different articles out there and discussion forums that do cover this but it takes me so long to find the solution with the right syntax. How? So I'm going to start with 1 method...

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

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 This is an article to remind me how to search for CRM records by a value that may contain an ampersand or parenthesis. Why? I wrote this article because some searches will work for me and sometimes it won't. Escaping the ampersand with a backslash or...

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

Zoho Creator: Receive JSON via a Shopify Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-json-via-a-shopify-webhook.html

15 July 2021 you want information on setting up an integration from Zoho Creator to Shopify API. Why? In this example, we want a webhook that whenever an order is made in Shopify, it tells our Zoho Creator app. Note that at the time of this article, API v1 is...

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

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 This is an article to demonstrate how to handle commas in a CSV file that were enclosed between two double-quotes. I've added to this the handling of new lines or carriage returns in between a pair of double-quotes. Why? Our use case is that we were...

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

Zoho Creator: Shopify API Integration Oauth 2.0 - Update 2022 (Search by SKU GraphQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-api-integration-oauth-2-0-update-2022.html

14 February 2022 is an article which is the updated version of my article Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API for 2022 using the new policy that Shopify have implemented when creating a custom app. Why? My use-case scenario here is that we have a Zoho Creator app...

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

Zoho Inventory & eBay Picture Services: UploadSiteHostedPictureshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-ebay-picture-services-uploadsitehostedpictures.html

31 March 2022 image to eBay's Picture Hosting Services (EPS). Why? Because I couldn't find any other article in the whole world wide web that had a working solution. My use-case here is that I have built an eBay integration between Zoho Inventory and... eBay....

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

ZohoCRM: Make either Mobile or Email mandatoryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-make-either-mobile-or-email-mandatory.html

03 October 2024 cool requirement, making 2 fields mandatory but if one is completed then making the other optional. Why? My use-case is that the mobile or email field on a Zoho CRM contact record is used to authenticate the contact on a Wordpress portal. OTP or 2FA or...

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

Zoho Deluge: Using Remove Key on a Map and Copying Record Tagshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-using-remove-key-on-a-map.html

03 March 2025 to use remove() on a map variable as well as a snippet of code to copy tags from a contact to a deal record. Why? Anything that stumps me for 30 minutes is worth writing a quick article on. In this case, I had a function querying tags on a contact...

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

Zoho CRM Client Script: Map Quote to Invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-client-script-map-quote-to-invoice.html

09 October 2025 This is an article to apply an automation that when creating an invoice in CRM from a related quote, it maps in the fields. Why? The process should be that you go to the CRM quote record and click on "Convert" > then select "Invoice", and it should map...

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

ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent quoteshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-xero-function-to-pull-most-recent-quotes.html

13 October 2025 Because my head is a little fried, I'm putting the two functions I used here and I'll document further if I remember. Note that the pre-amble is to generate a Xero access token which I documented in another article - it's behind a userwall because I...

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

ZohoBooks: Broken UK Banking Feedhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-broken-uk-banking-feed.html

16 October 2025 stopped updating, and the option to Refresh Feed was missing entirely from the Banking module. Comparing screenshots showed that the expected menu option (“Refresh Feeds”) had been replaced with only “Automatic Import.” Attempts to make the account...

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

Community Builder in Joomla Vulnerabilityhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/community-builder-in-joomla-vulnerability.html

10 November 2009 Detected! Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at.....ru appears to host malware - software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just viisting a site that hosts malware can infect your...

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

Change default order of weblinkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/change-default-order-of-weblinks.html

15 November 2009 advanced configuration... I can't see this panel, there is no advanced parameters under a weblinks category. The issue is that suppose a menuitem links to a category of weblinks, the default sort order (as in the first time you view the page) is the...

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

Running Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 as standaloneshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/running-internet-explorer-6-7-8-as-standalones.html

18 May 2010 on Run > c:\\download\\ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d:1 /s:""#E") If you only want Internet Explorer versions 6 & 7 (Note that installing IE8 will break this) Possibly the easiest thanks to http://browsers.evolt.org/ who have a version 6 standalone....

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

Joe's CSV Chart Generator (JCG)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joellipmans-csv-chart-generator.html?catid=40

26 May 2010 :c) BACKGROUND: Originally 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...

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

Webdeveloper-Speakhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/webdeveloper-speak.html

13 July 2010 usability evaluation services." Their website has initiated a Web Definition Glossary (there are others but this one's got that "kiwi" approach) A few terms I wanted to list up: "above the fold" or "before-the-scroll" The part of a webpage that is...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *