Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Locationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-user-timezone-country-and-location.html

03 June 2019 A quick article just as a note to get the users country information from a third-party API based on the given IP address. How? Well this is just a list of free 3rd-party APIs and the below code is dependent on these being online and working... The...

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

Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

05 January 2011 Source Administrator) MS Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Test/Sample MySQL Database to connect to (server and username + password). Admin Access to the reporting server if you plan on deploying the report to it. Scenario: We want to report...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 to work with SSRS. Main Example: My stored procedure will do the following: Get a student ID number based on the student username Get a student's names and date-of-birth based on the student ID number Agenda Outline Note: As simple as this sounds, this...

• 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 to the new folder created in the previous step. Copy the database of your main site to another database. Setup a database user account that can access the new database created in the previous step. Modify the configuration.php file in the root of the...

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

Creating a custom form field type for Joomla XML fieldsethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/creating-a-custom-form-field-type-for-joomla-xml-fieldset.html

25 October 2013 2.5.x component for logging time and projects and need a dropdown to have selectable options restricted to the logged-in user. This is specified in the XML file of the custom Joomla component and needs some SQL dependent on some dynamic variables. Why?...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 If you are using the SDK and still get the above error, try setting the currentUserEmail to the email address of the super admin of your system just to check, then set a valid user preferably other than the super-admin....

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

Zoho Creator: Two submit buttons on a non-stateless form with 2 different redirectshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-two-submit-buttons-on-a-non-stateless-form.html

27 July 2021 a "Save" button on their form as well as a "Save & Close" button. The "Save" button would submit the form but keep the user on the record form. The "Save & Close" button would submit the form and then redirect the user to the report view of the records....

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

Zoho CRM & Creator: Download attachment and upload to Creator file fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-download-attachment-and-upload-to-creator-file-field.html

11 March 2022 a Creator app that will show the attachments on a CRM contact record (and be clickable). The complication here is that the user can use the Creator form to add a new attachment that will eventually be uploaded back to CRM. How? At time of print, things...

• Type: Article
• 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 eBay allows users to request the deletion of their personal data from eBay's own systems, as well as from the systems of all partners who store or display that data, including third-party developers integrated with eBay APIs through the eBay Developers...

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

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/installing-phpbb3-for-joomla-with-a-rockettheme-template.html

28 September 2009 purposes: I am installing phpBB3 on a website at http://www.mysite.com/ and am going to pretend the server path is /home/user/var/public_html/ These are the instructions for our usual setup: A working website in Joomla CMS v1.5.14 Applied RocketTheme's...

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

Uninstalling AEC Central and installing Community Builderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/uninstalling-aec-central-and-installing-community-builder.html

20 January 2010 > Plugins 10. Tick Authentication - AEC Access 11. Tick System - AEC ErrorHandling 12. Tick System - AEC Routing 13. Tick User - AEC User 14. Click the Uninstall icon at the top of the page 15. Click on the Modules link (to uninstall modules) 16. Tick...

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

DataJumble - Shuffling characters in a data valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/data-shuffling-function.html

01 August 2012 DateOfBirth ----------- -------------------- ------------- 1 John Smith 1990-03-21 2 Fred Bloggs 1988-11-02 3 Another User 1985-07-11 4 Yet Another User 1977-06-25 After: StudentID StudentName DateOfBirth ----------- -------------------- ------------- 1...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

Connect to Joomla database in standalone scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/connect-to-joomla-database-in-standalone-script.html

17 August 2012 outside of the MVC structure, we need them to use the existing configuration file in order to retrieve the credentials (ie. username, password, database, etc.). For obvious reasons, these cannot be hardcoded. What? Any developer installing my component...

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

Inline Labels in Form Fields using Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/inline-labels-in-form-fields-using-javascript.html

21 August 2012 value="Name:" - give this field a default value. In this specific case, we are giving it the label value to indicate to the user to enter their Name (as in forename or surname). onFocus() - What to do when the user moves their cursor into the field or...

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

DataTumble - Randomize Data Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datatumble-randomize-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 Before: ID Name DateOfBirth --------- ------------ ----------- 1 John Smith 1988-06-24 2 Fred Bloggs 1972-11-17 3 Another User 1964-02-18 After: ID Name DateOfBirth --------- ------------ ----------- 1 Fred Bloggs 1964-02-18 2 Another User 1988-06-24 3...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

Android: Replace return key with done, go, send...https://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-replace-return-key-with-done-go-send.html

03 November 2014 on how to replace the return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device. Why? I have an editText where a user can enter any text value but if they typed a return character, the app would crash because it didn't understand the data. I...

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

Zoho Creator: Get Images in Report to be Exported to PDFhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-get-images-in-report-to-be-exported-to-pdf.html

26 January 2024 This is an article to document how to produce a report which when exported to PDF will display images without a user wall. Why? Our client needs to send a report to suppliers that include photos of the faulty products. These display fine in a Zoho...

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

Zoho CRM: Mapping a Multi-User or Multi-Lookup field using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-mapping-a-multi-user-or-multi-lookup-field-using-deluge.html

28 April 2021 This is a very quick article with examples of managing a multi-user or multi-lookup field in CRM using Zoho Deluge. Why? Sometimes you might need this when data mapping fields from one module to another, sometimes you need to manage existing...

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

List all cron jobs for all usershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/list-all-cron-jobs-for-all-users.html

04 May 2011 # Add all of the jobs from the system-wide cron directory. cat "${CRONDIR}"/* | clean_cron_lines >>"${temp}" # */ # Add each user's crontab (if it exists). Insert the user's name between the # five time fields and the command. while read user ; do...

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

DataScramble - Randomizing data rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datascramble-randomizing-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 DateOfBirth ----------- -------------------- ------------- 1 John Smith 1990-03-21 2 Fred Bloggs 1988-11-02 3 Another User 1985-07-11 4 Yet Another User 1977-06-25 After: StudentID StudentName DateOfBirth ----------- -------------------- ------------- 1...

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