Zoho Analytics: Determine profits from invoices and purchase ordershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-determine-profits-from-invoices-and-purchase-orders.html

03 November 2022 Zoho Books. We needed a dataset that took into account "Delivery" as a separate line item on the purchase order. I'm writing this article as it had gone through several partners before us and even Zoho themselves without a solution. This took my team...

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

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 Granted that in some cases, the design should go in the other direction, as in enter the products 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...

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

Zoho Webhooks & Shopify API: Keep Disappearinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-webhooks-shopify-api-automatically-restore.html

22 April 2024 This is an article to show how to setup a scheduled function that checks and restores a missing webhook as well as the snippets when receiving the webhooks and storing them. Why? We found that Shopify would intermittently remove our webhooks. This would...

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

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...

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

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

09 October 2025 Thought I already had an article on this and I know my article Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API covered a quick query to pull some invoices but this one documents a pull and mapping into CRM invoices. Why? This took me a whole afternoon so I wanted a...

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

UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/utf8-unicode-php-mysql-for-international-characters.html

22 October 2010 This is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla!...

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

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

19 July 2011 because our setup is perfect and well thought through" not - note the DBMS is not hugely relevant for the purposes of this article). The end-user must be able to search on EITHER the student's username or the student's ID (2 report parameters:...

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

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

02 September 2011 it took a while to figure out and googling other solutions did not answer our questions but did lead us to a workaround. So this is regarding an error when trying to add parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL...

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

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

04 November 2011 last report, the one to execute the stored procedure, we use an account specifically created to run the stored procedure. This requires using 2 data sources in SSRS. A user will specify the student reference in the parameters of the first report (the...

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

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html

02 December 2011 are the times taken for "data retrieval", "processing", "rendering", and then the totals of these. I haven't Googled this at the time of print so there may be a million better solutions out there, this is just how I did it. This may look like a horrible...

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

Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 More for others than for myself, but this article is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They...

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

SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

23 April 2013 This is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud: Error: The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code...

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

SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html

07 March 2014 This article details a method we used on a search form in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment. The requirement (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases...

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

Protecting your Joomla Administrator Sectionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/protecting-your-joomla-administrator-section.html

23 October 2015 This is a quick article to remind me how to move a Joomla administration section and to lock it down to a specific IP address. The below does not involve installing any third-party extensions and will remain in place even if you update your Joomla CMS....

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

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 This is an article which lists the functions necessary to process Google Authentication using OAuth2.0. These functions allow a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired. Update...

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

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

31 March 2022 This is an article documenting the process of publishing a Zoho Inventory 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...

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

ZohoCRM Client Script: On Change of Dropdown: Subform Rewrite: REST Functionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-client-script-on-change-of-dropdown-subform-rewrite-rest-function.html

01 April 2025 write. Why? As mentioned, it took me a while to write and I would like to use it as a reference for when I forget how to do this. The use-case here is that we have a dropdown/picklist on a CRM invoice record that has the options of "Deposit" and "Final...

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

Zoho CRM: JS Widget: Generic Script to pass the Record ID to a CRM functionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-js-widget-generic-script-to-pass-the-record-id-to-a-crm-function.html

18 August 2025 There's documentation out there but as this took me a couple of days to simply install a JS widget hosted by Zoho and pass the record ID via a button to it, I'm adding it here in case I need to refer to it in future. Why? We have an Accounts module...

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

Merge the content of two similar tables in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/merge-the-content-of-two-similar-tables-in-mysql.html

11 January 2011 create some table I'll never use again unlike the rest of the solutions I found on the web). In MySQL, I only know how to do this with a UNION ALL clause. Scenario: I have a Joomla module which should take the keywords from a specified number of...

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

SSRS External Images don't displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html

19 September 2011 but we didn't go down the route of uploading 10000+ images into a Sharepoint database though we are still considering it; so this article is more about just getting external images to display when they are provided over an authenticated URL (You...

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