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 solution as well so who copied off who is not my concern as this is not the solution to our problem. This is the solution that I initially used but my end-users were asking why is it always 0 seconds. This was because we were using the following MDX...

• 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 SELECT Name, ItemID FROM Catalog WHERE Type = 2 ORDER BY Name If you want to use these datasets, parameter options should be that the Name is the "Label" and ItemID is the "Value", just in case you didn't pick up on this. If no type is specified...

• 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 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, allowing...

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

Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 Data Consistency. I was tasked with finding variations of our default values. End-users were complaining that some default values get listed twice because their system was case-sensitive despite the collation of the SQL Server being case-insensitive....

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

Export/Import Database using MySQL Workbenchhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/export-import-database-using-mysql-workbench.html

05 February 2013 as PhpMyAdmin would fare better. How? So this is the HOME tab when you open MySQL Workbench. We're going to go on the basis that you already setup a connection to your database under the SQL Development section. Export/Import happens under the Server...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 data source, then the options in the connection manager will let you skip rows and specify column datatypes. You don't get that with Excel but you can still control the data range. How? My example is that I have an excel sheet where the first 10 rows...

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

MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html

12 April 2013 This is a quick note to myself so that I never use parentheses in the column headings again. Basically I have a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top. Why? The...

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

Transferring Apps (purchases) from iPhone 4s to 5s on a Windows PChttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/ios/transferring-apps-purchases-from-iphone-4s-to-5s-on-a-windows-pc.html

03 November 2013 to: Apple iOS 7 Apple iTunes 11.1.3.8 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Just so many articles out there that did not help me. This article is how I finally did mine. Why? I had paid for some apps on my old phone and realized that if I didn't do a...

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

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html

08 April 2014 and would only ever display, the top rows of the dataset. Why? A lot of articles out there on the net are offering solutions that do the exact opposite. Basically, I want the opposite result of "Fixed headers while scrolling". How? Once I figured out...

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

AHK Countdown Tooltiphttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html

17 July 2014 to: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise AutoHotkey (see code for AHK version) What? Someone suggested an app that counts the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this latest app...

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

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

24 October 2014 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 using Google Services as they are more...

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

Android OS: Add GoogleMap as fragmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-os-add-googlemap-as-fragment.html

25 November 2014 "Basic Android App using Google Maps and Current Location", this article suggests how to add Map as a sub activity. Note that this article is based on a new blank project which does not include code from the previous example but you can still build this...

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

Joes Search Module (JSM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-search-module-jsm.html?catid=40

09 March 2015 module but with the parameters embedded (set in the administration section). Why? A client has a repository of PDF documents that are uploaded to a folder. The client also purchased OS PDF Indexer by OS Solutions and installed this. The client wanted...

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

Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

28 March 2015 on line ### Why? So I've googled, binged and yahoo'd for this and although there are some solutions that deal with loading UTF16 content into SimpleXMLElement or simplexml_load_string, it doesn't solve my problem. I'm receiving XML data within a cURL...

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

Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html

14 February 2019 the string to search (in this case a single cell value). Sheet2!$A$1:$A$4 is the range of words to find from Sheet2. Note that there is a dollar in front of both column name (eg. "A") and the row number (eg. "1") so that these don't automatically change...

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

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 bank holidays) or to say the last Tuesday of the month. How? Quite easily. For the first Monday of the month, it is likely that even if today was the first day of the month and coincidentally a Monday, then we would want to specify the field date to be...

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

Autohotkey - Chrome Profiles in Alphabetical Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-chrome-profiles-in-alphabetical-order.html

07 January 2020 to list the multiple profiles in alphabetical order like it used to be... but to date they have not. So I made a program that lists the profiles in alphabetical order and can be double-clicked to open the Chrome browser with that profile. How? So you...

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

Windows 10: Shortcut Apps to Settingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-10-shortcut-apps-to-settings.html

30 July 2020 To: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro v10.0.18362 What? This is a list of apps that if run via the run command, or used in a desktop shortcut, or that you want to include in automation software such as AutoHotkey, opens any specific Windows OS settings page....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Set Up Custom Domain for Customer Portalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-set-up-custom-domain-for-customer-portal.html

17 November 2020 this working with the 2 CNAME records though. Some providers say this will take between 24-48 hours but I have often found that after a few hours, the effects have been propagated. A test I like to do is open the command-line in MS-Windows or the...

• 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 days and in the end only going through various forums and documentation, I found a solution which worked for me. Note that usually I could customize the receiving PHP script to receive a JSON request and process it that way but my usage was to send data...

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