Import Excel CSV file as JavaScript arrayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/import-excel-csv-file-as-javascript-array.html

05 October 2015 A CSV file exported from Excel along with double-quotes label1,label2 item1a,item2a item1c,"item2c,c" item1b,item2b What I want: To read the file (stored on the server) and convert to a JavaScript array of objects var my_object_array = [ { my_col1_val:...

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

Minimal Privileges for MySQL Database Backup Cron Jobhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/cpanel/minimal-privileges-for-mysql-database-backup-cron-job.html

20 March 2019 do a backup (reading and copying data from a LIVE database) to a copy of the database (inaccessible via other users). How? I want to list 2 methods here. One to create a .sql file of the backup but another to copy the contents to a copy of the database...

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

CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transitionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-add-text-to-breadcrumb-link-with-a-transition.html

18 May 2019 couldn't find any clear example demonstrating this so here's my take on it: What I have » Home / Products / Lanterns What I want (on mouseover) // if I hover the mouse over the "Home" link: » Return to Home / Products / Lanterns // if I hover the mouse...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Get Image Uploaded in Creator Formhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-image-uploaded-in-creator-form.html

14 July 2020 your report Copy the embed code it pops up with to your clipboard Paste this into a browser Right-click on the image you want and inspect the element, this will have the SRC which is the publicly accessible version that you want. Now you can use that...

• 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 hits a statement execution limit if I use a for loop. I have a map with 3 columns: first_name, last_name, and ID. What I want is a HTML table now with the headers and data but without using a for loop. What I have:...

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

Zoho Creator: Receive JSON via a Shopify Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-json-via-a-shopify-webhook.html

15 July 2021 to receive a JSON response from a webhook created in Shopify. See my article: Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API if you want information on setting up an integration from Zoho Creator to Shopify API. Why? In this example, we want a webhook that...

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

Zoho Creator: Assign an integration field value with an integration valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-assign-an-integration-field-value-with-an-integration-value.html

27 July 2021 This is a quick article to help anyone encountering this gotcha: I have an integration field, if someone changes it, I want to save the value to the record immediately. Why? If you try to update an integration field via deluge with another integration...

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

Zoho Deluge: Handle Commas between Quotes in a CSV (and New Lines)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-handle-commas-between-quotes-in-a-csv.html

26 August 2021 New Street","Territory":""} {"EmployeeID":"New York City\"","Name":"USA","Address":"","Territory":""} Actions Do you want to get rid of the annoying escaped double-quotes that no longer have any use in our data sample? Use a non-regex replaceall:...

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

Zoho CRM: Get Unique Values of a Text Fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-get-unique-values-of-a-field.html

08 October 2021 field in a CRM module. Why? My use-case is a data-migration where the records exist in a staging module in CRM but I want to transform/translate one of the column values into the target How? So this is my plan: Setup a connector to CRM with the scopes...

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

ZohoCRM: Template: not being able to edit a text boxhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-template-not-being-able-to-edit-a-text-box.html

25 January 2022 ${Organization.Country} ${Organization.Postal Code} 11 My Street, My City, My State, My Zip, My Country They wanted to get rid of the "11 My Street, My City, My State, My Zip, My Country" but when editing the template, they couldn't put the cursor in...

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

Zoho CRM: searchRecords with sorted resultshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-searchrecords-with-sorted-results.html

10 February 2022 then the getRecords() functions: Set the record ID to your own record ID. Set the list of pages to the number of pages you want to search. Keep in mind script execution limits set by Zoho. Set the search criteria string to your specific requirements...

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

Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 didn't fit the requirement: A client's first-line agents would have a lead record with the status "New Lead". The client wanted that if the status had changed to something else, the first-line agent would not be allowed to set it back to "New Lead"....

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

Zoho Inventory & eBay Picture Services: UploadSiteHostedPictureshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-ebay-picture-services-uploadsitehostedpictures.html

31 March 2022 and vice-versa. Easy to make the function to push an item to an eBay listing (see my other articles for this). But we also want to push an image from Zoho Inventory to eBay. How? Again, there is a caveat in that the subscription you have or your client...

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

Zoho Analytics: Set Up a Widget Displaying Sales Personhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-set-up-widget-displaying-sales-person.html

24 October 2022 any field in your table/query which is not the one to display Under "Group By", select the field that has the value you want to display. Under "Show Value As", select Max Then click on the "Settings" tab and do the following: Under Primary Value -...

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

Zoho Creator: Disable/Hide the add and delete subform row buttonshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-disable-hide-the-add-and-delete-subform-row-options.html

28 February 2023 the GUI. Why? Our use-case is that we have a subform which gets autopopulated with a list of services. The client does not want their operations team adding/deleting rows and instead simply specifying quantity (defaulting to zero) alongside each...

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

ZohoDeluge: Inserting a new line character in a CSVhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodeluge-inserting-a-new-line-character-in-a-csv.html

01 March 2023 accepting "\n" as a new line character and instead would render/display it as "\n"... What I have Me,Myself,I\na,b,c What I want Me,Myself,I a,b,c How? So in this article I just want to list some various methods of inserting a new line character. Works...

• 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 about getting all the active product listings from eBay for a specific client. Why? Our use-case scenario here is that we want to get an inventory level or stock check of all the products that are currently listed in a client's eBay store; we want to...

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

ZohoAnalytics: Pivot Campaigns vs Contactshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoanalytics-pivot-campaigns-vs-contacts.html

20 March 2023 but at least a working example of an ANSI-SQL (ZohoSQL) query pivoting campaign results vs contacts. Why? Simply the client wanted a report on customers on each row and then the campaigns as columns. What we want: Contact Name Lead Source Campaign 1...

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

ZohoCRM: Get Organization Business Hours using Deluge/APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-organization-business-hours-via-deluge-api.html

28 March 2023 A super quick article on getting the business hours set in ZohoCRM. Why? When creating a booking system in ZohoCreator, I want to enter the default working shift for an employee either existing or that has been added to the system based on the business...

• 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 data table and then to push the attachment from ZohoDesk to ZohoAnalytics using the API. The use-case here is that a client wants customers to submit ZohoDesk tickets and upload photos of the problematic product to the ticket. They then want an...

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