Convert Decimal (Person Days) to Time in Excelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/convert-decimal-person-days-to-time-in-excel.html

13 February 2013 format to [h]:mm:ss -- yields 1:00:00 0.04166667 =(ROUND(B5/0.07, 0)*0.5)/24 -- now format to [h]:mm:ss -- yields 1:00:00 Note that the first formula is converting person days into minutes and then dividing by 1440 (resulting in the decimal number:...

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

SQL: Use CASE for Relevance columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/sql-use-case-for-relevance-column.html

03 August 2013 So this is a quick note to myself as I was playing with the relevance heuristics of a query. This example adds a column of relevance and sorts the rows accordingly. How? This has to be a real quick one for a dropdown search field which has to find...

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

MySQL: Find all non-alphanumeric rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-find-all-non-alphanumeric-rows.html

09 September 2013 Quick note on how to do this. I was tasked with cleaning up an english database by replacing all special alphabets (ë to e) and non-alphanumeric symbols with URL friendly characters. How? -- return all records that contain non-alphanumeric characters...

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

Joomla Development: Possible XML Filtershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-development-possible-xml-filters.html

17 October 2013 three special characters _ (underscore) . (dot) - (dash) BASE64 Forces the value to be a base64 encoded the string. Note it does not encode the string, it simply strips characters that may not exist in a base 64 encoded string. STRING Removes HTML HTML...

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

Oracle: order by subquery missing right parenthesishttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/oracle-order-by-subquery-missing-right-parenthesis.html

05 December 2013 A quick note on how I got round one this one. Why? Often enough, our requirement is that the latest record from another table is associated with the current row, and often enough we get the latest by ordering the dataset of the subquery. In T-SQL and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: *

PHP: First name and Initial of Surnamehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-first-name-and-initial-of-surname.html

27 March 2014 A note for myself on some code to convert a string of two names into a string made up of the first name and then using the initial of the second name. -- What I have John Smith Fred.Bloggs -- What I want John S. Fred B. How? So different ways, the first...

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

CSV Chart Generatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/csv-chart-generator.html?catid=40

04 September 2015 almost every type of chart you can think of (though this program only uses chart types: Area, Bar, Column, Line and Pie). Note that AMCharts.com is free as long as you leave the copyright information. If you want to remove the copyright text that...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

MySQL Transactions in PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-transactions-in-php.html

14 December 2016 MySQL commands directly like: mysqli->query("START TRANSACTION") mysqli->query("COMMIT") mysqli->query("ROLLBACK") Important note: Our tables must use an engine that supports transactions ie. InnoDB. Don't be silly like me and spend hours wondering why...

• Type: Article
• Author: Ike Francis
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

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 =...

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

Zoho Deluge - Hide Reset Button on Formhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-hide-reset-button-on-form.html

15 November 2018 So another quick note as I couldn't find a solution on the forums. This is to hide the reset button on a non-stateless form (state form?). I have posted this on the Zoho forums as well but here goes: Why? Because I can. And because as someone said, a...

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

Zoho Deluge: Check Time Booking Slotshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-check-time-booking-slots.html

05 December 2018 Just wanted a note to get in my head the logic if checking a requested time slot isn't a double-booking (as in, the time slot doesn't overlap a previous booking. How? Given a date/time and a duration, we will work out the requested start and end time:...

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

Zoho Deluge - Regex to Strip all non-numeric charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-to-strip-all-non-numeric-characters.html

25 March 2019 characters (all non-digits) from a string. Why? I only want the digits/numbers from a string: v_PaymentTerms = "Credit Note - 30 Days"; // we want the 30 from the above string How? I'm aware of the getAlphaNumeric() function in Zoho and I can remove the...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Locationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-user-timezone-country-and-location.html

03 June 2019 A quick article just as a note to get the users country information from a third-party API based on the given IP address. How? Well this is just a list of free 3rd-party APIs and the below code is dependent on these being online and working... The...

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

Zoho Deluge - Store and repopulate a multi lookup list in Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-store-and-repopulate-a-multi-lookup-list-in-creator.html

28 June 2019 lookup options (not selected items) for each r_EntryID in l_AllowedEntries { input.myLookup:ui.add(r_EntryID); } Additional Note(s): If removing elements, even if you are using Creator v5, use removeElement() and NOT remove() which got me stuck for a...

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

PHP - Remove newlines and spaces from StyleSheethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-remove-newlines-and-spaces-from-stylesheet.html

03 January 2020 What? This is a quick note on how to reduce a whole bunch of CSS into a single line without unnecessary spaces and new lines. Why? What I have: #copyright a{ margin: 10px 0 0 85px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px 0px rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.3); } What I want:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Joomla CMS: Register to Read Morehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-cms-register-to-read-more.html

11 April 2020 This article is a quick note on how to change your Joomla CMS "Read More" to "Register to Read More" all without hacking away at the Joomla core. Why? Well a few hacks may be necessary because not only do we want to restrict read more content (full...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 that my custom fields have as identifiers UDF_CHAR8 (which is a Zoho ID) and UDF_CHAR7 (which is a text/string name field). Note that in the below snippet, I've put m_Params into separate lines for display purposes but actually it should be all on one...

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