Registered Users Cannot Login - Super Users Canhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/registered-users-cannot-login-super-users-can.html

26 February 2014 and "activated" (not blocked). If I used a test account, none of the Joomla groups, not even "Administrators" could login. However set the same test account to a "Super User" and they would be able to login. Was the problem authentication? Restricted...

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

SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 like: 5826|England Almost! If the code and it's short name/full name exist in the database, this works accordingly. If however, for some reason the code does not exist the code lookup will fail: -- If CODE=0000 and 0000 does not exist in table to lookup...

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

Zoho Deluge - Generate 5 Letter Booking Retrieval Codehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-5-letter-booking-retrieval-code.html

09 May 2019 a number to 5 letters. Why? Zoho doesn't have a function to generate random numbers or strings. There are workarounds however. How? The first note is that there is something that can emulate a random number... well it's not really random, it involves...

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

Zoho Deluge - First Monday of Month or Last Tuesday of Monthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-first-monday-of-month-or-last-tuesday-of-month.html

27 September 2019 and coincidentally a Monday, then we would want to specify the field date to be the first Monday of the next month. If however we want the last Tuesday of the month and that Tuesday happens before today, then we want the last Tuesday of the next month....

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

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 to the CRM record. See my "Additional" note further below in this article on how to sync the attachments to the CRM record, however for now, check the logic of this as this is known to work on the CRM record: // assuming I have a creator form called...

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

Zoho Deluge: Setup an API Connection for InvokeURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-setup-an-api-connection-for-invokeurl.html

12 August 2020 Additional I'd always recommend locking down your app privileges by checking the scope(s) you have allowed it to have.... However in those times of debugging/testing when you can't seem to access that bit of information Zoho is reluctantly letting you...

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

Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 To return an ok response, as in application accepted, we simply don't return an error so this might be completely optional however the Zoho People system will require a return value for this function: // return response as ok popup (doesn't really do...

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

Zoho Deluge: Post a multi-dimensional or nested array to a 3rd-party APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-post-a-multi-dimensional-or-nested-array-to-a-3rd-party-api.html

03 February 2021 [ url :"https://api.joellipman.com/my_test_api.php" type :POST parameters:m_NestedRequest ]; The receiving PHP script did however understand this hack as: $v_Key = "aaabbbbccccddddeeeeffff11112222"; $v_Secret = "can_you_keep_a_secret"; $v_PostedKey =...

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

Zoho Creator / Shopify: Get all Active Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-get-all-active-products.html

12 October 2021 } Yields something like: [ 1234567890123, 2345678901234 ] 2 Well that produces a lot of ID numbers delimited by a comma. However, to match my use-case, I want a list to which I can give it an SKU, and it returns the Shopify Product ID (not of the...

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

Zoho Creator/Deluge: UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement foundhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-unpredictable-exception,-invalid-statement-found.html

17 November 2021 { v_StartTime = r_SubformRow.Start_Time; } } } // yields // UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement found Line:(20) However, I'm not bad at producing errors so here's another snippet that will also cause the error: // select a bunch of creator...

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

Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 yields 10.00 v_Test10 = 10; info v_Test10.round(2); // yields 10 v_Test11 = 10.1; info v_Test11.round(2); // yields 10.10 However the opposite can be done as long as you set the datatype to a decimal first and then use the rounding. In other words the...

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

Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 to something else, the first-line agent would not be allowed to set it back to "New Lead". Automations and workflows could however (run as Administrators). Mapping a dependency field didn't fit the bill because we want "Lead Status" to be displayed to...

• 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 to use both the Graphics Card and OnBoard Motherboard port at the same time, something last I built a PC was not possible. However, it was suggested that a modern motherboard BIOS allows you to enable this. It's just a setting in the BIOS if your...

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

Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Promptshttps://www.joellipman.com/graphic-design/joel-s-guide-to-midjourney-prompts.html

11 February 2023 prompts for the MidJourney AI text-2-image discord tool. Why? The results from the MidJourney bot are beyond unpredictable however with the correct prompts you can direct it to focus on the elements you want from a brief. How? A "prompt" is a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Graphic Design
• Language: *

Zoho Cliq: Integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT 3.5 Turbohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-cliq-integrate-openai-and-chatgpt-3-5-turbo.html

13 February 2023 and although the solution below only connects to the OpenAI API, it is not currently connected to ChatGPT. The plus side however is that it is connected to the Internet unlike ChatGPT which only has information up to 2021. How? The basics of setting...

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

ZohoBooks: Error Code 15: Ensure Billing Address has less than 100 charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-code-15-ensure-billing-address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

18 September 2023 estimate and a client asked that the address on the CRM record 'pulls through'. Sending the address in the same request however gives me the following error: { "code": 15, "message": "Please ensure that the billing_address has less than 100 characters."...

• 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 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 environment up and the Wordpress site has the...

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

ZohoCRM: Make either Mobile or Email mandatoryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-make-either-mobile-or-email-mandatory.html

03 October 2024 a Zoho CRM contact record is used to authenticate the contact on a Wordpress portal. OTP or 2FA or MFA or OTC is in effect however; so a contact email OR phone number is required. Both aren't required but at least one should be. How? We can do this...

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

PHP Script: Make your own Thumbnail Generator via APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/php-script-make-your-own-thumbnail-generator-via-api.html

29 May 2025 and to build upon it as I kept moving the goal posts, figuratively speaking, and changing the requirements. I am impressed however that every version it iterated, worked exactly as I asked with only 1 error where it mixed a method with a comment but...

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

MacOs: Transcribe Training Video using OpenAI Whisperhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/macos-transcribe-training-video-using-openai-whisper.html

23 June 2025 whether it did it in a shorter amount of time; but the next morning I had a "transcript.txt" file in the working directory. However, the outputted transcript file is all in lowercase without any punctuation so ChatGPT was not able to make much sense of...

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