Error 1065: Query was Emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/error-1065-query-was-empty.html

13 December 2012 I take over, I have often gone down the wrong path following the red herring as it were when in fact the answer to this is very common. Why? Bespoke systems are the usual suspects. Developers will have told the system what to do when newline, carriage...

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

T-SQL Conversion failed when converting the varchar to data type inthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-conversion-failed-when-converting-the-varchar-to-data-type-int.html

14 May 2013 A very quick note in case I forget this one. If you are trying to join two tables and receiving the error "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'B110' to data type int" then read on. How? So where does the 'B110' string come from, well...

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

Generate a Timesheet in MySQL https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-a-timesheet-in-mysql.html

05 December 2013 creating a template for the site I just made; I started at 9:45 and finished at 12:00") The final system needs to specify every day of the week and divide all the days activities into the morning and afternoon slots. All days and time slots must be...

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

Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 An article on how to declare an XML element as NULL using the attribute "xsi:nil". I'm going to use a very short example by providing a blank date of birth value: -- What I have: // -- What I want: Why? Outputting from SITS:Vision to our staging...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
• Language: *

DJI Phantom FC40 Paint-Job and AerialFreaks Cyclops FC40 Gimbal Upgradehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/quadcopters/dji-phantom-fc40-paint-job-and-aerialfreaks-cyclops-fc40-gimbal-upgrade.html

04 September 2014 this to a plug later. Hmm... maybe I should have painted my Phantom in chrome. My DJI Phantom FC40 repainted and gimballed. Very close to the ground so will have to watch those landings and thats with thicker than stock pads Done. Here's a video and I...

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

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

09 March 2015 I've googled far and wide but as usual, I find myself to be the first to address this. How? The module I have made is very basic and not in an MVC structure but it has been tested on Joomla 2.5.28 and Joomla 3.3.1. It simply displays a search module...

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

Zoho Deluge - Get English Ordinalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-english-ordinal.html

08 November 2018 This is a very quick note with the code to determine the English ordinal of a date (eg. "st" of "1st"). So in a date, instead of "Tuesday, 6 November 2018", I could want "Tuesday 6th of November 2018". Why? Well there's a long a way to do it (but...

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 which generates an access token for a service account which in turn is used to list files in a team's Google Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended: Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURL... In that this one doesn't...

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

Zoho Deluge: Push Multi-Select Picklist containing Commas from CRM to Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-push-multi-select-picklist-containing-commas-from-crm-to-creator.html

20 April 2020 A very quick article on how to push a multi-select picklist from CRM to Creator. Why? We're trying to create a record in Creator off a button on the CRM Potential/Deal record. The CRM module has a multi-select picklist which will use commas to delimit...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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 Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-create-a-widget-which-uses-javascript.html

24 October 2020 for a few years now, even I thought of Zoho Widgets as a daunting task. But after doing some, I realize this is actually very quick to do and much easier than first thought. The article below documents how to create your first widget in a MacOS...

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

Zoho Creator: info/alert/modal/popup notification for any userhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-info-alert-modal-popup-notification-for-any-user.html

06 November 2020 window","height=144,width=555"); The reason being, is that the top solution offers a very generic popup box that can be quickly modified with content/text and the popup size will automatically resize based on content. I tend to use the first solution...

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

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 Add new action item Name your action item Name the workflow Execute the action for Collection of record (this step is very important!) And you should have something like the following: Click through on "Add New Action": Select "Deluge Script" Select an...

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

Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 ones to also be taken into account (first come first serve basis). Calculate the percentage of people already booked off: A very quick percentage calculation snippet of code to work this out: // calculate percentage v_Percentage = (v_TotalClashes /...

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

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 very quick article on converting a Map string into a HTML table without using a for each loop. Why? I have quite 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,...

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

Zoho CRM: Mapping a Multi-User or Multi-Lookup field using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-mapping-a-multi-user-or-multi-lookup-field-using-deluge.html

28 April 2021 This is a very quick article with examples of managing a multi-user or multi-lookup field in CRM using Zoho Deluge. Why? Sometimes you might need this when data mapping fields from one module to another, sometimes you need to manage existing...

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

Zoho Deluge: Calculate Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds between two Timestampshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-calculate-days,-hours,-minutes,-seconds-between-two-timestamps.html

21 September 2021 A very quick article to calculate the time between two timestamps and break it down into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Why? I've done this in lots of other systems but here's one in Zoho Deluge. How? We're going to make use of the .toLong() function...

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

Zoho Deluge: Today, Tomorrow, Day After but Skip Sundayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-today,-tomorrow,-day-after-but-skip-sunday.html

02 November 2021 A very quick article with a snippet of code to get today's date, tomorrow's, and the day after's but it has to skip Sundays. Why? Wanting to create a schedule for availability over the next few days which needs to dynamically change. I am aware of the...

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

Zoho Deluge: Text (SMS) reminder using Twilio API (LocalSense)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-text-sms-using-twilio-api-localsense.html

16 December 2021 A very quick article to remind me how to send a text message using Twilio API in Zoho Deluge. Why? The use-case here is that we want local sense dialing where specific numbers are used both for outbound and inbound but local to the customer and we want...

• 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 A very quick article to document a HTML Entity decoder in Zoho Creator. Why? Sometimes when receiving data from a third-party, we may receive some strings containing "&" or " " and obviously want to display these as decoded HTML entities. (Zoho if...

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