Zoho Books: Generate Bank Text File for Downloadhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-generate-bank-text-file-for-download.html

02 October 2023 What? This is an article to document how we created a button off a Bill record in ZohoBooks which generates a text file to be sent to a bank and downloads it to the staff member's workstation. Why? Why is this a challenge? The file contains bank details...

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

Zoho Creator: Get Images in Report to be Exported to PDFhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-get-images-in-report-to-be-exported-to-pdf.html

26 January 2024 What? This is an article to document how to produce a report which when exported to PDF will display images without a user wall. Why? Our client needs to send a report to suppliers that include photos of the faulty products. These display fine in a Zoho...

• 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 What? A quick article to document 2 features in deluge code: a custom related list in ZohoBooks, and a reminder on how to read a table from ZohoAnalytics. Why? My use-case here is that we have a client who uses their purchase orders and sales orders as...

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

Zoho Projects: Get All Eventshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-projects-get-all-events.html

22 July 2024 What? A quick article because I couldn't find anything that documented this with a working example. Why? The use-case here is that we want to make a ZohoCreator page display events for this month from ZohoProjects. How? The bit that stumped me was...

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

Zoho Analytics: Create a Monitoring System with Imageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-create-a-monitoring-system-with-images.html

25 July 2024 What? This is an article to remind me how I did this for a customer and images help visualize the health of the system. Why? The use-case here is to build a system which monitors a Zoho App for when records were last modified and if a synchronization...

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

Zoho Deluge: Determine your Statement Execution Limithttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-determine-your-statement-execution-limit.html

31 July 2024 What? A very quick article on how to check what the statement execution limit is on the Zoho application you are working in. Why? Our use-case is that an application we built in Zoho Creator was hitting statement execution limits and rather than...

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

Zoho Creator: Input Color Pickerhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-input-color-picker.html

14 October 2024 What? An article on creating a color picker from a specific palette using an input field of a radio type. Why? At the time of print, this feature is not provided out-of-the-box and getting our users to learn about hexadecimal color references and Red...

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

ZohoCRM / Client Script / Canvas: Hide Tab based on Pipelinehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-client-script-canvas-hide-tab-based-on-pipeline.html

06 May 2025 What? A quick article with snippets of code to hide and show certain tabs on a deal record based on the pipeline. Why? A request from a customer asked if a tab specific to the pipeline selected can be shown while others hidden. Standard tabs such as...

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

MacOs: Transcribe Training Video using OpenAI Whisperhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/macos-transcribe-training-video-using-openai-whisper.html

23 June 2025 What? Just noted this down in case I need to do it again. This article documents how to take a 5.5 hour video (MP4) and have it transcribed by a locally installed AI on a MacOS (running Sequoia 15.1.1). Why? Needed for training videos as a follow-on...

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

Zoho People: Get Performance Records over APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-get-performance-records-over-api.html

18 September 2025 What? Took us a while to find this and perhaps others would have a quicker way but here's the instructions on getting the records from the performance module in Zoho People API. Why? Cos it took us a while. The online forums seem to go back over a...

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

Add a template to the dropdown in Kunenahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/add-a-template-to-the-dropdown-in-kunena.html

20 September 2009 This is what I had to do to be able to add another template to the dropdown in the Kunena configuration panel: Download your site from your server to a copy on your local disk (hard disk, flash drive, etc) Make sure that the...

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

How to use download managers with Google Chromehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/how-to-use-download-managers-with-google-chrome.html

19 September 2009 Using the bookmark feature: Right click on the bookmarks bar of Google Chrome. Type the name to what ever you want (eg. Download YouTube). Use the following code as the URL: javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' +...

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

Can't play music after Firmware Update Version 3.0https://www.joellipman.com/hardware/cant-play-music-after-firmware-update-version-30.html

21 September 2009 to the Sound System via Optical Out. I found that if you do enable the multi-audio output then you can play music again. What a bummer you can't play music and use anything else anymore. I can still play some games and select my own music... but they're...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
• Language: *

First and Last Entry on a Page using Modulus Remainderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/first-and-last-entry-on-a-page-using-modulus-remainder.html

26 September 2011 I know it's quite a long title but I'm not sure what I'll be searching next time. It has taken me a lot longer than I thought it would mostly out of frustration and the inability to know exactly what I'm looking for... always difficult. After a cup of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Drop If Object Existshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/drop-if-object-exists.html

03 August 2012 What? Some people have been suggesting you can use "CREATE OR REPLACE... VIEW... FUNCTION" but my SQL Server 2008 Management Studio doesn't like this and refuses to understand what I'm trying to do. Why? As this data seemed to be across various...

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

Joomla field types clear my htmlhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-field-types-clear-my-html.html

09 August 2012 What? Trying to make a component and can't remember how to store HTML code when the save command is clicked (ie. submitted from a PHP form). This is for the Opensource Content Management System (CMS - phew what a mouthful) Joomla! version 1.6.x to...

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

UNC Paths in Sharepoint 2007 linkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sharepoint/unc-paths-in-sharepoint-2007-links.html

08 November 2012 to Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007 What? I've been tasked with adding links to files located on some network shares. I want to use UNC paths such as \\myServer\myShare\myFile.doc. I could map the UNC path to a drive letter and then link to it (eg....

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

Trim in T-SQL and SSIShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/trim-in-t-sql-and-ssis.html

14 May 2013 What? Some methods of removing trailing spaces, tabs, carriage returns and line feeds (new lines). How? First in Transact-SQL: SELECT RTRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( @myString, CHAR(9), ''), CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '') ) -- CHAR(9) = Tab -- CHAR(10)...

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

A for loop within a for loop in MS-DOShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/a-for-loop-within-a-for-loop-in-ms-dos.html

03 October 2013 What? A quick note for myself as I'd forgotten how to do this (we're talking technology belonging to the 90s - MS-DOS v6.22). The example wants to loop through a directory and then loop through the line it finds. Why? I use another technology for...

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

SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html

03 June 2014 What? This article is so that I don't spend so long in googling what the TxScript referenced assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to...

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