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 website (at time of print: Jcomments v2.3.0 on Joomla v2.5.4) Copy the below script to a text file Change the database names to match your setup Change the table name prefixes to match your setup Run the modified SQL script against your database. Note:...

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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 Script Login to ZohoCRM > Setup (cog icon next to profile photo) > Developer Hub > Client Script > New Script Give it a name, I'm calling mine Invoice TBC Give it a description. I said "Sets the subject/name of the invoice to TBC when first created....

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

06 May 2010 and environment. Our setup is: SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 BMC Service Desk Express 9.8 DataSet1: Incident # Group Name Close Date & Time Assigned to Full Name Incident Type The objective of this article is to explain how to hide "Series1" from...

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

Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

24 October 2014 without needing to redistribute or update this app. {youtube}fQD0xVEYDks{/youtube} Location: For location, type a city name, post code, zip code or any value that is understood by the api.openweathermap.org website. There are plans to shift this to...

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Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to HTML Table without a FOR loophttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-html-table-without-a-for-loop.html

11 January 2021 a big response from our CRM that hits a statement execution limit if I use a for loop. I have a map with 3 columns: first_name, last_name, and ID. What I want is a HTML table now with the headers and data but without using a for loop. What I have:...

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Zoho Deluge: Sort a Map by a specific fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-sort-a-map-by-a-specific-field.html

29 January 2021 Yes this functionality exists in reports but I want to do it in code so as to display it in a HTML table. What I have: id name date --------------------------------------------- 46498 Joel 1977-11-14T12:30:00+00:00 8949 Anonymouse...

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• Category: Zoho
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ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 the import file. The import file I got working had the following columns: Attachment Id: This needs to the unique filename of the actual file on disk (as opposed to "File Name" which is the file name as it is to be displayed in ZohoCRM). For example...

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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 } // // ---------------------- DETERMINE ZOHOBOOKS CUSTOMER ID ---------------------- if(!isnull(r_QuoteDetails.get("Account_Name"))) { v_AccountID = r_QuoteDetails.get("Account_Name").get("id"); r_SearchResults =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 ** Return Values : Table of two columns: ** ** - Value: Your search term and matching variations ** ** - Source: The table_name.column_name it found this value (Maximum) ** ** ** ** Additional: ** ** - For performance, restrict this by schema otherwise...

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

T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 -- value() returns single value, specify data type as second parameter SELECT Event_XML.value('(/STAFF/EMPLOYEE_NUMBER/@name)[1]','varchar(20)') FROM [dbo].[XML_EVENTS] Issues: XQuery [value()]: 'value()' requires a singleton (or empty sequence), found...

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

Zoho Creator: Button on Report for Merging Multiple Selected Recordshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-button-on-report-for-merging-multiple-selected-records.html

06 December 2020 I'm sending to the function. So in "Edit this application" > go to Workflow > Functions > New Function: give the function a name select "Deluge" as the language give it a Namespace (for this example I will leave this on "Default") and set the return...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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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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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...

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

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html

05 August 2014 lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor"). Why? Our extract phase in the SSIS package takes data from a source...

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

Zoho Creator: Retrieve record with case-insensitive queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-retrieve-record-with-case-insensitive.html

21 November 2019 me how to make the retrieval of a record case-insensitive. Why? Consider that I have the following creator table: Product_Name Product_SKU -------------- ------------- MyProduct1 TEST01 Myproduct2 TEST02 myproduct3 TEST03 I'm trying to insert a record...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 the documentation for a snippet of code that will list files of a directory using an AutoHotkey GUI and display what it will name them. The app needs to rename files but append an incremented count if the name of a file already exists. The original file...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Order Notifications via Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-order-notifications-via-webhook.html

20 September 2021 { b_SandboxMode = false; v_Output = ""; if(b_SandboxMode) { r_Api = API_Integration[Connection_Name == "eBay API (Sandbox)"]; //info "Sandbox Mode"; } else { r_Api = API_Integration[Connection_Name == "eBay API (Production)"]; //info "Production Mode";...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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ZohoCRM: Using Criteria with Module Record Counthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-using-criteria-with-module-record-count.html

14 November 2023 use "equals" with a single condition and search for a field (mentioned in point #3 of the Note on this page), like Campaign_Name:equals:CRM, the response will contain only those records whose Campaign_Name is "CRM" and not records with "Best CRM" or...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 the lookup value: -- What I have: no export format 5826 -- What I could have: export format set to get lookup value -- &GCOD_NAME.COD.SRS England -- What I want: export format to get multiple values -- &G[COD.SRS:•|•] 5826|England How? You can see it in...

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• Category: Extensible Markup Language
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Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html

05 January 2011 MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection Manufacturer: MySQL Standard Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; Default port is 3306. Specifying port...

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• Category: SQL Server
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