Zoho Creator: Sendmail a list of attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-send-mail-a-list-of-attachments.html

20 July 2023 This is a very quick article on sending an email with Deluge which needs a dynamic number of files attached to it. Why? This came up during a call with another developer and it occurred to me that perhaps this isn't clearly documented. But there are...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Analytics & Zoho People: Monitor DataSource Sync https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-zoho-people-monitor-datasource-sync.html

02 July 2024 on how to setup an automation that checks if a datasource synchronization between Zoho People and Zoho Analytics failed. This can be adapted to any data source for Zoho Analytics. Why? We're assisting a client implement Zoho People as their new HR...

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• 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: *

Zoho Creator: Input Color Pickerhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-input-color-picker.html

14 October 2024 article on creating a color picker from a specific palette using an input field of a radio type. Why? At the time of print, this feature is not provided out-of-the-box and getting our users to learn about hexadecimal color references and Red Green Blue...

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

ZohoDeluge: eBay marketplace account deletion/closure notificationshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-ebay-marketplace-account-deletion-closure-notifications.html

13 March 2025 Program. To help third-party developers comply with these requests, eBay has implemented a push notification system. This system alerts all eBay Developers Program applications when a user has requested the deletion of their personal data and closure of...

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

ZohoCRM / Client Script / Canvas: Hide Tab based on Pipelinehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-client-script-canvas-hide-tab-based-on-pipeline.html

06 May 2025 the client script which returns the value of the Pipeline given a deal record ID. Finally, we'll have client script execute this function, then show/hide tabs based on the value. Assuming I have a tab called "Sales Pipeline", and "Hire Pipeline": Go to...

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

MySQL day of week ending on Fridayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-day-of-week-ending-on-friday.html

26 April 2012 Week Ending Date has been requested a lot more frequently now. It's an odd one but the example below shows how to do this for when the week ends on Friday. Assuming it starts on the previous Saturday. Why? Problems with MySQL weeks always starting on...

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

Upgrading Joomla CMS version 3.x to Joomla CMS 5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/upgrading-joomla-cms-version-3-x-to-joomla-cms-5-x.html

04 February 2025 article for me or for whoever dares to upgrade their Joomla CMS from version 3 to version 5. Disclaimer: I'm used to doing this without any third-party extensions. I strongly recommend you do a backup beforehand of the database and of all your files...

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

How to redirect the visitor after the contact pagehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/how-to-redirect-the-visitor-after-the-contact-page.html

06 September 2009 mosRedirect( 'index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=102' ); Create thankyou page and menu item for ID, change this in the code to redirect to the item ID - remove menu item Ultimately this solved the problem of redirecting the user after...

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

Add the website name to the page title in Joomla!https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/add-the-website-name-to-the-page-title.html

06 September 2009 on changing the page title in Joomla! CMS to display both the actual page title and other stuff. As I like doing this for this particular website (my personal one) in every version of Joomla it's been upgraded to, I've noticed some differences that I've...

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

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 Issue Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. ) and want a PHP file to process 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...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• 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...

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

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...

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

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

23 March 2011 in the "column" and [room] in the "row" and [note/status] in the "data" cells. 2. Use the SQL code above: So you can paste this straight into the textarea or use "Query Builder". 3. Select Matrix Tablix: We want all rooms on the left and the time along...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

Developer's Checklist: Taking over a projecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/developers-checklist-taking-over-a-project.html

01 March 2011 and more people have been asking if I can take over a project that has been abandoned by its developer. I've started writing this article because I find myself forgetting to ask something that could have saved an infinite number of man-hours (I...

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

Joes DNS Correction (JDC)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-dns-correction2.html?catid=40

25 November 2011 had this? Your colleagues are connecting fine and your IT service desk say everything is functioning normally and it's just YOU! Script Function If you are on a network that frequently loses connection or simply forgets what intranet site you were...

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

Basic Oracle Stored Procedure Structurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-stored-procedure-structure.html

16 January 2012 T-SQL stored procedures work slightly differently and are easier to pull off. After much umming and aah-ing, I have written this article as a note for me to demo a working stored procedure and how to use cursors. I'm told I need to use this for SQL...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

24 January 2012 fails. The same problem happens when using these as a subquery which has an empty result set. Furthermore I am using this stored procedure in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment and don't want to return any rows if there are no matches...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

Search a database for a value and count matching rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-value-and-count-matching-rows.html

05 November 2012 and we want to be able to count all the records in any table of the database that match on a particular warehouse load. This is a column value where the column is called "WarehouseLoadKey" and the value we want to search on is "3" (the 3rd incremental...

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

Sync Outlook 2007 Shared Calendar with SharePoint 2007https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sharepoint/sync-outlook-2007-shared-calendar-with-sharepoint-2007.html

09 November 2012 I misunderstood what was going to happen when I started this. We have a SharePoint 2007 site and we have been asked to migrate links and calendar from an existing system. I was worried when following other instructions because I thought my personal...

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