Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 that has taken me several days to get working: Get Zoho Books or Zoho Inventory that when an invoice is marked as paid, update 2 custom fields with the Payment Method, and the Payment Date. Why? This was requested by a customer and the problem happened...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Deluge - Get Full Day Namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-full-day-name.html

08 November 2018 This is a very quick note with the code to retrieve the full day name from a date (eg. "Monday"). Why? If I use the toString() function to get the day, it only returns the first 3 letters of the day (eg. "Mon"). My_Date = today; Day_Name =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html

05 April 2011 The requirement in a lot of my reports in SSRS has always been a date range rather than just the one date. The user must be allowed to select all results between two dates instead of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter (ToDate) is the...

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

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

ZohoDeluge: Get All eBay Orders Given a From and Till Datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-get-all-ebay-orders-given-a-from-and-till-date.html

28 February 2023 the Orders in XML format: /* Function: fn_eBay_GetOrders() Purpose: Queries eBay for all orders given a from and till date Date Created: 2023-02-28 (Joel Lipman) - Initial release Date Modified: ???? - ??? More Info: - API Explorer Test Tool:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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SSRS Display question mark when date is blankhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-display-question-mark-when-date-is-blank.html

15 April 2014 Visual Studio 2012 Premium Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I have a column in an SSRS report which displays a date. Being rather pernickety, I would like a question mark to display if there is no date to populate the field. Why? At the moment,...

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

MySQL last year week month day trend periodshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-last-year-week-month-day-trend.html

31 October 2011 be usable mySQL statements to get all the numbers: Yesterdays -- CURRENT: count todays SELECT COUNT(id) FROM Table1 WHERE DATE(registerDate)=DATE(NOW()); -- BEFORE: count yesterdays total SELECT COUNT(id) FROM Table1 WHERE...

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

Cheat Sheet for mySQL vs t-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/cheat-sheet-for-mysql-vs-t-sql.html

31 January 2013 string,start,length ) String Length LENGTH(string) BIT_LENGTH(string) CHAR_LENGTH(string) LEN(string) DATALENGTH(string) Dates / Times Weekday Name DAYNAME(now()) DATENAME(dd, getdate()) Weekday Number DAYOFWEEK(now()) DATEPART(dw, getdate()) Month Name...

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

MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html

23 February 2014 :: MINimum file size - exclude files smaller than n bytes. /MAXAGE:n :: MAXimum file AGE - exclude files older than n days/date. /MINAGE:n :: MINimum file AGE - exclude files newer than n days/date. /MAXLAD:n :: MAXimum Last Access Date - exclude files...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• 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 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 2019 This script requires a user to authenticate the google account. I have a newer article called Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2...

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

Zoho People: Get Performance Records over APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-get-performance-records-over-api.html

18 September 2025 we need to Zoho Analytics to produce an Objectives report with the requested columns. Inputs: int p_RecordID Outputs: - Date Created: 2025-09-18 (Joel Lipman) - Initial release Date Modified: ??? - ???...

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

AutoHotkey Format Date and Format Secondshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-format-date-and-format-seconds.html

20 September 2011 you can tell these are my messed up functions that convert dates into seconds and vice-versa. They're a little disorganised but they're the ones I copy and paste to my scripts then modify. In it's straightforward form FormatTime( TimeString, Format ) {...

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

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 Update June 2013 - How to use this migration script: Make a backup copy of your old Joomla website (1.5.x) Download and install the latest Joomla CMS Go through the Joomla Web-based Installation GUI until the process deletes the Installation folder....

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

Joes Revolver Map (JRM) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-revolver-map-jrm-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 Restored colors and new colors given - Enhancement: Compatible with Joomla v2.5.x - Fixed: Backwards compatible parameters updated - Date Uploaded: Fri, 16th Jan 2015 Download 1.5- Enhancement: Updated widget from RevolverMaps in HTML5 - Enhancement:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
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ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 on 'Save and Next' and you will be asked to check your other CSV files... The only correction I had here is to specify the date/time format: On the Review screen it tells you how many fields were mapped. Amazing but not as useful as it is interesting:...

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

ZohoDeluge: Check Shipment Status via DHL APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-check-shipment-status-via-dhl-api.html

21 March 2023 Purpose: Queries DHL for tracking information about a shipment and returns the status code (eg. "delivered") Date Created: 2023-03-21 (Joel Lipman) - Initial release Date Modified: 2023-03-21 (Joel Lipman) - ??? More Info: - DHL Developer Portal:...

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

Yesterday's time in PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/yesterdays-time-in-php.html

30 September 2010 tip or note to self: How to get yesterday's date irrespective of date format or daylight savings time. $today=date("Y-m-d"); $yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));

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

MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html

12 April 2013 bug where it couldn't work out that 10 (Wednesday) happened after 8 (Monday). How? See the following screenshot and note the dates for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday: Note how amusingly Microsoft thinks Wednesdays come before Mondays... but...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

MySQL Data Type Reference Tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-data-type-reference-table.html

15 February 2010 Set ('value','value2',...) String object that can have one or many values of a set of allowed values. 1, 2, 3, 4, or 8 bytes Date/Time Date 'YY-MM-DD', 'YYYY-MM-DD', 'YYMMDD' 3 bytes Range "1000-01-01" to "9999-12-31" Date/Time Time 'HH:MM:SS',...

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

Migrate JComments from Joomla 1.5.x to Joomla 2.5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrate-jcomments-from-joomla-15x-to-joomla-25x.html

07 June 2012 path, level, object_id, object_group, object_params, lang, userid, name, username, email, homepage, title, comment, ip, date, isgood, ispoor, published, subscribe, source, source_id, checked_out, checked_out_time, editor ) SELECT id, parent, CASE WHEN...

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