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

19 December 2012 our clients to test these, and then a live/production environment that will be released for public use. This allows for a good test bed and stable releases, error and hopefully risk-free. How? Here's one method I used based on the services available to...

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

Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

21 January 2013 floor?). Why? We have a row on a website of three boxes made of div layers. When viewed normally on a 15" Laptop, all was good using Chrome and tolerable using MS Internet Explorer. If we maximized the Google Chrome browser, the row would split and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

04 March 2013 You say less than ideal, I say realistic. Quit complaining about processes and management and instead prove your worth. I'm good at what I do because I make do with what I have available and I've yet to fail in coming up with a fix/workaround. "It's a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html

04 April 2013 how responses to this and opinions vary between "Microsoft Certified Professionals", just a piece of paper and proof you're good at theory IMO, no credit for being the tape monkey that does all the actual work.

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

htaccess Rewrites SEF URL and submits to PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/htaccess-rewrites-sef-url-and-submits-to-php.html

05 September 2013 back later (eg. 034, 039). Do NOT allow any punctuation you don't use in your site structure. Slashes and underscores /_ are good (so regexp: /[^a-zA-Z0-9_\/]/). If you allow percents (%) or apostrophes (*) then you are asking for trouble. Note my...

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

Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 this is indicating that the system can't find the core framework files. Yes the bad news is you have lost your site. The good news is that it's only the core files and component files. Here are some tips when restoring the site to return it to as it...

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

301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

03 April 2014 There are a lot of articles & posts out there that cover the same topic, but as this took me the good part of an hour just to find out, I'm posting it here so I never have to look for it again. A client changed their website domain address and wanted...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

DJI Phantom FC40 - Fun at the raceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/quadcopters/dji-phantom-fc40-fun-at-the-races.html

17 September 2014 This is my filming of some Radio Controlled cars at the Torch Racing, UK event last Sunday. The FPV latency isn't good on this camera so it was no use here, so several challenges: No FPV: Keep the quadcopter pointed at the car. I treat it like a...

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

Warning: Save failed. Another menu item has the same aliashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/warning-save-failed-another-menu-item-has-the-same-alias.html

13 March 2015 the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla Administration Panel (to check for and remove expired menu items) A good database administrator who is comfortable with making changes to the database Why? We have a page describing the company...

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

Joes Google Map for Joomla (JGM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-google-map-for-joomla-jgm.html?catid=40

13 April 2015 map in a module using the Google Maps API v3 styling features which includes Points of Interest (POI). Considering I spent a good month styling Google Maps for Android OS on a mobile app, having access to the Google Map API v3 in JavaScript is a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• 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 text would still appear small. Sure I resized the text to about 46pt and everything was over 3000px in width but this is not good for a final solution. I thought maybe there was a setting for the default font size or where I've accidentally zoomed out...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get distance between two coordinateshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/get-distance-between-two-points-in-zoho.html

11 June 2019 distance "as the crow files" between two coordinates given the latitude and longitude of each. Why? Well, you can pay for a good Google solution that will distance following roads and the such but.. the following is free albeit as-the-crow flies. This...

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

Zoho Creator: Download uploaded file and attach to Sales Order in Zoho Bookshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-uploaded-file-and-attach-to-sales-order-in-zoho-books.html

15 May 2020 } } } r_Record.Attached_Files_in_CRM=true; } Other timewasting activities but good code Putting this code here on this article as it was the path I initially went down. Send mail attachment: creator file upload field value as attached file You might...

• 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 a name, I'm calling mine "Joels Connector" Select the Scopes: ZohoWriter.documentEditor.ALL and ZohoWriter.Merge.ALL For good measure, I'm going to include the scopes: WorkDrive.files.ALL, WorkDrive.workspace.ALL Click on Create and Connect > Accept Get...

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

Zoho Creator: Radio group into Calendar Carouselhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-radio-group-into-calendar-carousel.html

09 March 2022 .choice-table-cell span label[elname='radioEl_zc-Calendar_Day_Select_9']{font-size:65px} Awesome! Looking good! the Deluge Not just a pretty face, let's make this functional. First of all, make sure you set up a form with the fields I mentioned earlier...

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

PC Build 2022: 5 Monitors connected to 1 PC using 1 GPUhttps://www.joellipman.com/pc-build-2022-5-monitors-connected-to-1-pc-using-1-gpu.html

12 March 2022 a quick article on how I built my 2022 workstation and got 5 monitors working with only 1 graphics card. Why? This took me a good few hours to get working so I thought this article could help others. It's also a chance to show off my build. Although not...

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

Zoho Creator: Embed Forms/Reports on a Pagehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-embed-forms-reports-on-a-page.html

05 May 2022 as you can't do cross-dom acoss child iframes; but it does let you use OpenURL(v_Url, "iframe", "iframe_name") which is good if you have multiple iframes on a page and you only want part of the page to display different content dynamically or on click...

• 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 ]; info r_Upload; } } Additional: I thought having a file and then using ZohoCreator .content would be a good way to store data exceeding 64Kb but instead I found using additional multi-line fields performance-wise was better: // // bigger than 64kb...

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

Zoho Books: Estimates/Quotes: Accept & Decline Buttons on Templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-estimates-quotes-accept-decline-buttons-on-template.html

04 November 2024 To use other fields that could be sent via the URL as a verification to be checked at the webhook endpoint would be good as well; but I couldn't spend time finding fields that can be 'placeheld', other than what the interface offers, into the template....

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

How to grow potatoes in potato planter bagshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/how-to-grow-potatoes-in-potato-planter-bags.html

20 September 2009 live in a flat but I'm lucky enough to have a balcony which gets some sun. Bought some potato patio planters and found this good video on youtube... {youtube}Q3zoVolI-Sw{/youtube}{youtube}Q3zoVolI-Sw{/youtube}{youtube}Q3zoVolI-Sw{/youtube}

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