Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 character. How does it happen? Have I tried the other solutions on the web? I have tried adding the following to my headers: This does nothing: // add these to the header: DOESNT WORK mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8'); mb_http_output('UTF-8');...

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

MS Excel - Split Workbook into separate files per sheethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/ms-excel-split-workbook-into-separate-files-per-sheet.html

11 February 2019 This article serves to explain how to split a spreadsheet consisting of multiple sheets into separate files per sheet. Why? The Excel file in question was about 36000 rows and had a file size of about 11Mb. In order for an import process to work, the...

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

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 This is a quick article on how to generate a 5 letter code from several functions: one which returns 5 randomly selected characters and another two which convert a number to 5 letters. Why? Zoho doesn't have a function to generate random numbers or...

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

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

11 June 2019 a good Google solution that will distance following roads and the such but.. the following is free albeit as-the-crow flies. This makes use of an undocumented function in Zoho which is acos or inverse cosine. Just lifted from the JavaScript library...

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

Zoho Deluge - Compare time and currenttime with timezonehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-compare-time-and-currenttime-with-timezone.html

13 January 2020 This is a quick article to demonstrate how to compare two datetime values with the timezone specified. Why? A client's ZohoCRM had a different timezone setting than the user a script would be run as. The time difference was just one hour but this caused...

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

Zoho CRM/Creator - Common Errors & Gotchashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-common-errors-gotchas.html

06 February 2020 ZohoCRM.settings.READ ZohoCRM.users.READ Problem: Code 37: The HTTP method PUT is not allowed for the requested resource This was an issue where I was trying to push a Zoho Creator record into Zoho Inventory via an invokeURL with API v2 rather than a...

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

AutoHotkey: Get Media Information and Displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-get-media-information-and-display.html

07 August 2020 To: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional v6.1.7601 32-bit AutoHotkey v1.1.33.02 What? This is a copied article just to store a permanent reference for if I ever need to build an app similar to the file explorer in the Microsoft Windows OS. Why? I had an app...

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

Expecting ZC_SUBFORM_250 expression found COLLECTIONhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/expecting-zc_subform_250-expression-found-collection.html

19 October 2020 A very quick article as I couldn't find anything on the WWW to document this error. Why? During a data migration, I was using a custom function to copy all the data from one app to another. The specific form was for "Leads" which contained a subform...

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

Zoho Books: Display Sales Order Shipping Address on Package Sliphttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-display-sales-order-shipping-address-on-package-slip.html

07 October 2021 I probably won't forget this but just in case I do, this is an article to explain how I got the shipping address from a sales order in Zoho Books into the template of the Package Slips. Why? It took me a while of playing about with the placeholder...

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

Zoho CRM: Schedule a Call using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-schedule-a-call-with-deluge.html

18 November 2021 This is an article to document how to schedule a call with a reminder in Zoho CRM using Zoho Deluge. Why? Because I find a need to document anything that takes longer than 30 minutes to figure out so I don't spend so long the next time I have to do it....

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

Zoho Creator/Deluge: Calculating with Timezone Offsethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-calculating-with-timezone-offset.html

07 December 2021 This is an article to remind me how to calculate various times for an appointment booking system based on the timezones of each party. Why? The use-case scenario is that our Creator server uses the US datacenter but has it's server timezone set to...

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

Zoho CRM: Template: Empty Space between Header and Line Itemshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-template-empty-space-between-header-and-line-items.html

03 February 2022 CRM template has been used and where the table of line items appears on a separate page (and to remind me of the CSS to fix this). Why? By default / out-of-the-box / vanilla, in a Zoho CRM Template, the table of line items will behave like this;...

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

ZohoFlow & ZohoSign: Retrieve a Zoho Sign document request and add attachments to CRM recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoflow-zohosign-retrieve-a-zoho-sign-document-request-and-add-attachments-to-crm-record.html

17 October 2022 This is an article describing a custom function built into Zoho Flow that will accept as parameter the document_id and request_id. It then retrieves the Deal Reference (entered by an office signee) on the ZohoSign document and searches for the relevant...

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

ZohoCRM: Get All eBay Active Listingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-all-ebay-active-listings.html

01 March 2023 check of all the products that are currently listed in a client's eBay store; we want to get the stock level and then use this data to synchronize with data held in Zoho Inventory... How? So we're going to use a ZohoCRM function to get this file which...

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

Zoho CRM: ZDK Client Script: Auto-Select Pipeline based on User Departmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zdk-client-script-auto-select-pipeline-based-on-user-department.html

16 October 2023 > Pipelines Using the "Standard" layout, let's simply create a new pipeline by clicking the button in the top right. For this demo, we ensure there are at least 2 pipelines: "Hire Pipeline", and "Sales Pipeline". Setup: the Client Script Login to...

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

ZohoDesk & ZohoAnalytics: Display Ticket Attachments in Analytics Reporthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodesk-zohoanalytics-display-ticket-attachments-in-analytics-report.html

05 December 2023 > Select Zoho Desk Do "Next" and select the Zoho Desk Portal Ensure that "Tickets" is selected (I'd tick most of the fields this contains) Create a data table in ZohoAnalytics to hold the attachments Create an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file with the...

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

Zoho Books / Inventory: Get Item Rate from a Price Book/Listhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-get-item-rate-from-a-price-book-list.html

23 May 2024 on how to get the pricebook entry using Zoho Deluge for a specific product in your ZohoBooks or ZohoInventory instance. Why? This took me the best part of an hour to determine by going through forum posts from 7 years to 2 years ago. The following will...

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

ZohoAnalytics & ZohoBooks: Custom Related List from Analyticshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoanalytics-zohobooks-custom-related-list-from-analytics.html

09 July 2024 to the end user/customer. A custom field against the item record has been added which is a lookup to the Sales Order module. This means that on a purchase order, and per line item, the staff can specify which Sales Order the item relates to. How? At...

• 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 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 without code and only using ZohoCRM layout rules. Let's take a contact record for demo purposes: If I enter a phone number: If...

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

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

20 March 2025 A frustrated article about an issue that took me a fair few hours to resolve. So I'm putting it here as I thought I covered this previously but couldn't find it on my website. This was previously titled something along the lines of truncating to 2...

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