Formatting a date in an MDX queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/formatting-a-date-in-an-mdx-query.html

11 January 2011 a note as I was getting confused with the built-in function "FormatDateTime()". The example is shown as: =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate) The other formats are: =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.GeneralDate)...

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

Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reportshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/blank-columns-issue-when-exporting-to-excel-data-only-from-crystal-reports.html

15 June 2010 appear when exporting to Excel. There are four main causes for extra blank columns to appear in a worksheet. Cause 1: Fields in the same column are not aligned with guidelines or snap-togrid To prevent fields from appearing in different rows,...

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

Zoho Creator: Prevent Endless Loops On User Input of a Fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-prevent-endless-loops-on-user-input-of-a-field.html

19 September 2021 if the value has not changed, to modify another field and vice-versa. This can get more complex when there are a lot of fields in the mix. How? I'm using this article to go through various methods I tried to prevent this from happening: First - Off: The...

• 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: *

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html

17 November 2011 of the MDX expressions and how I tweaked each one to return the final result: -- to get just the time value =( CDate(Last(Fields!REPORTENDTIME.Value, "Dataset2")) - CDate(First(Fields!REPORTSTARTTIME.Value, "Dataset1")) ) // yields // 00:00:02.1543570...

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

Zoho Deluge: Duplicate/Clone a Recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-duplicate-clone-a-record.html

17 March 2020 the invoices for the month before, and duplicates each one for the new month. How? First you have to get all the applicable fields from the settings API. In API v2, you have to do it this way apparently. So setup a Zoho Oauth connector (see the end of...

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

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

18 September 2025 genericize. My client has seen the Goals or Objectives report under "Organization Reports" but would like some additional fields/columns added to it. Turns out, it's a system report you can't change. Enter Zoho Analytics... well almost, Analytics will...

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

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

21 August 2014 give you the name of the field, its entity and dictionary. My example below will use the Decision/date and Response/date fields (rather than the CAP_IDRC). This demo will use the key fields from the Course Application (CAP) entity/table. Create the XML...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

Zoho CRM & Zoho Creator: Query returns some fields missing other data on the recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-creator-query-returns-some-fields-missing-other-data-on-the-record.html

26 July 2021 to build a related list in Zoho CRM with a view on to related records in Zoho Creator. For some reason, only some random fields were being returned, all pretty much useless to me. Well the "for some reason" turned out to be because my detail view on the...

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

Zoho Projects: Deluge to Submit Custom Fieldshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-deluge-to-submit-custom-fields.html

17 June 2021 A super quick article to demonstrate an example where we create a project with custom fields. Why? At time of print, the documentation on the Projects API would only show responses rather than requests. Sure it lists fields that are required in the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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 there. Adding Events Again I've put two rooms as examples in the above script. The "Events" table needs as a minimum the 4 fields "Room", "EventStart", "EventFinish", and "Status" ("Tooltip" was for me so that when the user hovers the mouse over the...

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

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 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 in that the...

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

Zoho CRM Client Script: Map Quote to Invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-client-script-map-quote-to-invoice.html

09 October 2025 This is an article to apply an automation that when creating an invoice in CRM from a related quote, it maps in the fields. Why? The process should be that you go to the CRM quote record and click on "Convert" > then select "Invoice", and it should map...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Writer: Button to Merge Template, Send, and Attachhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-writer-button-to-merge-template,-send,-and-attach.html

21 October 2021 The button function Create a button off the contacts record by going to ZohoCRM > Setup > Customization > Modules and Fields > Contacts > Links and Buttons > Create Button where the function arguments will be p_ContactID = Contacts.Contact_ID...

• 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 is a working example of rewriting a subform (line items of an invoice) and calls a REST API fuction to return the custom fields of the line items. Pretty much a function which took me a day to write. Why? As mentioned, it took me a while to write and I...

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

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

19 January 2012 user) Add a data source to your SSRS report Add an SSRS input parameter Add a dataset Query type: Stored Procedure Refresh fields button Parameter name (oracle input sp variable) and Parameter value (ssrs input parameter) Fields (field name=ssrs...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 What? This is to describe how to change the value of a field of a form from it's default when it is clicked on so that it auto-clears and changes to how it normally works. Example? Note the value in the below field. Now click on it and it disappears,...

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

Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html

06 May 2010 Series1 is the data series from an outer join where the joining index value is null. The chart below has 3 series or data fields: Count the total number of incidents logged (Y-axis - data fields) Invidividual the incident(s) are assigned to (Labels -...

• 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 "Data_Retrieval" is the field to compare (of all "Data_Retrieval" values) and "Report1" is the name of my dataset: =IIF( Fields!Data_Retrieval.Value=MAX(Fields!Data_Retrieval.Value, "Report1"), "Red", IIF(...

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

Joomla article modal with clear buttonhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-article-modal-with-clear-button.html

27 August 2012 to select a Joomla! article in the component parameters/options. The "clear" button is essential as some article_modal fields may not be required and are difficult to clear once set. How? Well don't quote me on this but I haven't needed to modify this...

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