Zoho Deluge - Determine Quarter from Date with Fiscal Yearhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-quarter-from-date-with-fiscal-year.html

31 January 2020 This is a quick article on what should be a simple mathematics equation: Determine the quarter from a given month. Why? Fine if you are determining the quarter by the month and your Fiscal year starts from January, simply divide by 3... How? I'm showing...

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

Zoho Deluge: Associate/Link an Invoice to a Sales Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-associate-link-an-invoice-to-a-sales-order.html

10 March 2020 This is an article because there was no documentation that I could find that describes how to do this. When an invoice is created, not by clicking on the "convert sales order to invoice" button, I needed a way to programmatically link the sales order to...

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

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 CRM REST API: Stop Workflow from Triggeringhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-rest-api-stop-workflow-from-triggering.html

16 June 2021 This is an article to show you how to use triggers but also how to stop them. We only found this an issue when using REST API v2.1 but also to show you how to configure triggers when using createRecord or updateRecord. Why? We had a Creator app updating...

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

ZohoCRM: Deluge: Map a custom field from user profilehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-deluge-map-a-custom-field-from-user-profile.html

01 September 2021 called "Division" (similar to team name) and wanted any Opportunity record to have a field showing the user's Division. This would help in reporting later down the line. How? The following code snippet will get the Opportunity/Deal/Potential record...

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

Zoho CRM: Upload a Product Photo using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-upload-a-product-photo-using-deluge.html

27 September 2021 me on how to upload a photo using CRM API v2. Yes it's documented and yes it still confuses me now and again. So I'm writing this to remind me and to keep reminding me of how to do this. Why? My use-case is that I have a photo in Zoho Creator but the...

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

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

13 October 2021 This is an article to document a function used in Zoho Creator to retrieve the Product IDs of all the active products in a client's eBay store. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to retrieve a list of all the listed active products in a fixed price...

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

Zoho Analytics: Setup DataSource via FTP Connectionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-setup-datasource-via-ftp-connection.html

12 January 2022 So this is going to be an article with a bunch of pictures showing step-by-step of how I setup a recurring data source in Zoho Analytics via FTP. Why? The use-case here is that I have a client who wants to import data via FTP (SFTP - to be precise) and...

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

Zoho Creator: Receive eBay Notification and Create Shopify Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-ebay-notification-and-create-shopify-order.html

21 January 2022 This is an article documenting how to parse the notification from eBay and using it to create an order in Shopify. Why? Previously, we would receive an eBay notification and create an order record in Zoho Creator. We did the same for when Shopify would...

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

Zoho Deluge: a HTML Entity Decoderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-a-html-entity-decoder.html

27 January 2022 or " " and obviously want to display these as decoded HTML entities. (Zoho if you're listening) Ideally, Zoho may add this to their zoho.encryption namespace such as zoho.encryption.htmldecode(string). But at time of print, it doesn't exist and in the...

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

Zoho Creator: Populate a Multi-Lookuphttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-populate-a-multi-lookup.html

18 August 2022 This is a very quick article with a code snippet on how I added to a multi-lookup field. Why? Using a multi-line or text is possibly a quicker solution and when using a desktop interface, you can parse the multi-line into a nice HTML table. But on a...

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

ZohoDeluge: Check Shipment Status via DHL APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-check-shipment-status-via-dhl-api.html

21 March 2023 an eBay Order coming into the system via a webhook... I would like to mark a shipment as delivered only if the courier, in this case DHL, confirms the tracked order was delivered. How? So first I'll give some brief instructions on how to get an API key...

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

Zoho Deluge: Get All Orders from eBayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-all-orders-from-ebay.html

29 March 2023 Following on from my article: ZohoCRM: Get All eBay Active Listings, this is how to get all the orders from a client's eBay. Why? Our use-case is a data migration from eBay to a fresh instance of Zoho Inventory. In this task, we are simply getting a CSV...

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

ZohoCRM Webhook: Create ZohoInventory Records from an eBay orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-webhook-create-zohoinventory-records-from-an-ebay-order.html

27 April 2023 This is a not-so-quick article that queries an eBay order and creates the relevant ZohoInventory item, contact, sales order, package slip, shipment order, invoice, payment records... Why? I'm storing this here as a reference and taking the bits that I...

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

Zoho CRM: Change System Field Lengthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-change-system-field-length.html

19 June 2023 This is an article documenting how to remove the block on changes to a system field in ZohoCRM. Why? Our use-case today is that a customer wanted to map the Postal Code or Zip from a Lead record to an opportunity (or Deal) record. If you are using...

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

Zoho Deluge: Get the Week Number if Week starts on a Mondayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-the-week-number-if-week-starts-on-a-monday.html

06 July 2023 In other words, the day counting starts at 7, followed by 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on... How? The logic behind this would be to take the date of the order, check if the order date is a Sunday, subtract a day, and return the week number:...

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

Zoho Deluge: Proper Case for Nameshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-proper-case-for-names.html

13 July 2023 This is an open article without any completion in mind; to set the proper case of a name, as in capitalize the first letter, lower case the rest but then with exceptions. Why? Some of the Zoho Apps are incredibly case-sensitive and consider some records...

• 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 Another article on something I learned today despite never running into this issue before; but sending a billing/shipping address included in a request to create or update an estimate in ZohoBooks will fail... Why? I have a function to push a ZohoCRM...

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

ZohoCreator: Basic Widget with Zoho Datahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocreator-basic-widget-with-zoho-data.html

14 March 2024 on from my article Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScript back from 2020 with a few adjustments now in 2024. This widget will only work within Zoho Creator. If you want a solution which sits on an external website and which talks to Zoho,...

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

Zoho Books: Estimates/Quotes: Accept & Decline Buttons on Templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-estimates-quotes-accept-decline-buttons-on-template.html

04 November 2024 it easier for their customers to accept or decline a quote. Sure there's a portal and you can probably do it from there but this is a one-click accept or decline then done. One of the biggest hurdles here, which may sound trivial, was the response when...

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