Zoho Creator: Set Up Custom Domain for Customer Portalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-set-up-custom-domain-for-customer-portal.html

17 November 2020 This is a quick article I use to list step by step on how to set up a custom domain for a Zoho Creator customer portal. In this example, we are going to use a subdomain of a company which has the domain joellipman.com. Why? This took me a bit of going...

• Type: Article
• 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 This is an article to demonstrate how to log a time event under a Zoho Projects Issue using code (Zoho Deluge) rather than the graphical user interface (GUI). Note this would probably be similar to when trying to enter a time against a project Task but...

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

ZohoCreator: Using .toFile and Uploading to a Creator fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-using-tofile-and-uploading-to-a-creator-field.html

25 March 2024 This is a quick article on generating a file with the Zoho Deluge function .toFile() and uploading it to a file upload field within Zoho Creator. Why? The use-case here is that we want a file to be hosted within Zoho Creator for use by a JS widget that...

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

Zoho Analytics: Create a Monitoring System with Imageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-create-a-monitoring-system-with-images.html

25 July 2024 This is an article to remind me how I did this for a customer and images help visualize the health of the system. Why? The use-case here is to build a system which monitors a Zoho App for when records were last modified and if a synchronization process...

• 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 Function to pull most recent invoices - along with their Contacts and Items (accounts/contact & products respectively). Why? This took me so much longer than I thought it would. It was meant to be based on the pull from invoices article I wrote earlier...

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

ZCRM Client Script: Correct Decimal Fields OnLoadhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zcrm-client-script-correct-decimal-fields-onload.html

13 December 2023 This is an article detailing the client script to fix any fields which exceed their decimal places limit in ZohoCRM. Why? So we have a customer that has some decimal fields on the products module that are calculated and will sometimes return numbers...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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 This took me a whole afternoon and involved a lot of hope as I browsed the Internet and no one seemed to have done this before. Fortunately, MediaWiki extensions are easier to write than Joomla CMS ones :c) This article shows you how to get your...

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

Zoho Creator: Download File from ZohoCRM field type "File Upload" (not attachments)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-file-from-zohocrm-field-type-file-upload-not-attachments.html

02 February 2021 This is an article to demo some Deluge code on how to download a file that was uploaded in CRM in a custom module in field that was of type "File Upload". Why? Just to remind me where I went wrong, I have a client with ZohoCRM who upload a PDF (can be...

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

Zoho Creator: Public URL of an Image field / Upload to Shopify APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-public-url-of-an-image-field-upload-to-shopify-api.html

17 October 2021 This is an article to document how I downloaded an image held in a Zoho Creator form, and sent it to an API wanting the publicly accessible link or URL of the image. Why? I've got some other articles on handling images in Zoho Creator (see "Sources"...

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

Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Promptshttps://www.joellipman.com/graphic-design/joel-s-guide-to-midjourney-prompts.html

11 February 2023 So this is an article for me to store prompts for the MidJourney AI text-2-image discord tool. Why? The results from the MidJourney bot are beyond unpredictable however with the correct prompts you can direct it to focus on the elements you want from a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Graphic Design
• Language: *

Zoho Books: Generate Bank Text File for Downloadhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-generate-bank-text-file-for-download.html

02 October 2023 This is an article to document how we created a button off a Bill record in ZohoBooks which generates a text file to be sent to a bank and downloads it to the staff member's workstation. Why? Why is this a challenge? The file contains bank details and...

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

Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/converting-sql-date-in-php-to-european-date-format-and-vice-versa.html

17 September 2009 Issue If you've ever made PHP scripts to process data within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) then this happens a lot. In the following example, our HTML form will allow the user to specify a date (so excludes hours, minutes and seconds)....

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

Write a Calendar in Autohotkeyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/write-a-calendar-in-autohotkey.html

27 January 2010 In this case, I want to display the current month with today highlighted. As I was trying to get my head round writing this in a program using the qHTM.dll (to include HTML in an autohotkey GUI), the calendar will be in a HTML-autohotkey mixed code....

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

Print Directory Contents to a Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/print-directory-contents-to-a-file.html

19 July 2012 in Windows Explorer and it would generate a text file with the contents of the directory he right-clicked. What? We can do this by adding an entry to the context menu (when you right-click on an object). The following is a method of adding this as a...

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

Improve Default Joomla Search https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/improve-default-joomla-search-heuristics.html

07 May 2013 binged but could not find anything that documents how to bring it into line with other search systems. So here we go, hope this helps you. Why? I've created search systems for a plethora of other systems. The aim of this article is to enhance the Joomla...

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

Client Services: Website Development Agreementhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/client-services-website-development-agreement.html

15 November 2013 you have been directed to this page, this is a draft article on a standard development project. The below is just a draft agreement and has to be mutually agreed. As the client, feel free to adjust, suggest and query against this. Here is an outline...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Zoho Templates - Font size is inexplicably tinyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-templates-font-size-is-inexplicably-tiny.html

22 February 2019 This is an article resolving an issue where a template will shrink all the text when in PDF preview. Why? Ok doesn't need a song and dance about it, but I went home yesterday downtrodden by an issue which I'd been working on for most of the day where I...

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

Zoho Deluge: Sort a Map by a specific fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-sort-a-map-by-a-specific-field.html

29 January 2021 This is a quick article to template some code to me on sorting a map variable in Zoho Deluge, specifically Zoho Creator. Why? I do this a lot but in the following example, I want to sort a list of records by their date in descending order. Yes this...

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

ZohoCRM: Process all records of a modulehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-process-all-records-of-a-module.html

24 August 2021 already been checked. Some solutions have worked in the past where you could simply add a checkbox and do a search where this value is false; but lately this hasn't been working for me. To this end, I have thought of an alternative that I now use...

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

Zoho Creator/Deluge: UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement foundhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-unpredictable-exception,-invalid-statement-found.html

17 November 2021 is 1 fix for the error: Execution Failed UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement found Line:(20) I cannot guarantee that this error doesn't appear for other reasons but I will add to this article if I encounter any. This is simply how I fixed this...

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