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 What? 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()...

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

Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/converting-sql-date-in-php-to-european-date-format-and-vice-versa.html

17 September 2009 and seconds). For demonstration purposes, I'm going to be using the European date format so DD/MM/YYYY. The Solution This is what I use to convert a given SQL date to the standard European format: $this_date=mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT...

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

Splatter Logohttps://www.joellipman.com/graphic-design/splatter-logo.html

30 September 2009 What? I saw this article and rather than bookmark it I thought I could just have it here for easy reference. It was written for Photoshop but I use Paint Shop Pro and felt I could do the same. It's just so complicated in Photoshop when web-developers...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Graphic Design
• Language: *

Joomla banners not rotatinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-banners-not-rotating.html

20 October 2009 between banners of either the same client OR the same category. The setting is in your Joomla > Module Manager > Banner... What I do is I don't select a client but instead just select a category. Set it to only display 1 banner at a time. If you want...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Get Books Currency and Tax IDshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-get-books-currency-and-tax-ids.html

24 September 2021 What? A quick note for when I want to quickly generate maps of a currency or a tax from a client's Zoho Books. Why? The use-case here is that we are creating a Sales Order in Zoho Books from Zoho CRM and want to map the correct currency and tax by their...

• 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 What? A quick article to remind 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...

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

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

12 October 2021 What? 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 Shopify. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to search Shopify using a Product SKU. Community forums could only...

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

Zoho Creator: Public URL of an Image field / Upload to Shopify APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-public-url-of-an-image-field-upload-to-shopify-api.html

17 October 2021 What? This is an article to document how I downloaded an image held in a Zoho Creator form, and sent it to an API wanting the publicly accessible link or URL of the image. Why? I've got some other articles on handling images in Zoho Creator (see...

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

Zoho Deluge: Generate List of TimeZoneshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-generate-list-of-timezones.html

19 October 2021 What? A quick article to take a list of options from a HTML select element and convert to a Zoho Deluge list that will eventually be used to populate a dropdown. Why? Because I find myself doing this quite a bit and wanted a quick way of extracting a...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Writer: Button to Merge Template, Send, and Attachhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-writer-button-to-merge-template,-send,-and-attach.html

21 October 2021 What? An article to save time where a customer wants to click a button to generate a merged document in Writer and attach it to the CRM record. Why? Our use-case is that we have a client who has to go to the CRM record, click on Mail Merge, which opens...

• 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 What? 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...

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

Zoho CRM & Deluge: Adding 10 minutes to a CRM Date Time fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-deluge-adding-10-minutes-to-a-crm-date-time-field.html

11 November 2021 What? I already have an article documenting Pushing a value to a datetime field in CRM but wanted another article here to remind me of the Deluge code I need to add/subtract time. Why? Just want to add 10 minutes to a date/time field in ZohoCRM and...

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

Zoho Creator: Copy Subform to other Subformshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-copy-subform-to-other-subforms.html

17 November 2021 What? A quick article on a snippet of code which copies one subform to other subforms in the same form. Why? I'm creating an appointment/booking system and I want the user to be able to set entries in a subform called "Mondays" then to click a button...

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

Zoho CRM: Schedule a Task: Timesheet Reminderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-schedule-a-task-timesheet-reminder.html

02 December 2021 What? A quick article to demonstrate code that creates a task in CRM based on the time logged against an Event/Meeting. Why? As developers, we're keep account of our time and we are currently logging time in our CRM. We're meant to do 40 hours, not just...

• 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 What? 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: *

After installing rokstories, get invalid argument 106https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/after-installing-rokstories-get-invalid-argument-106.html

14 January 2010 menuitems" (named unusedmenu), which isn't displayed anywhere on my site. I'm guessing the reference in the database is what corrects this.

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

Zoho Deluge: Calculate start and end of Daylight Savings Timehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-calculate-start-and-end-of-daylight-savings-time.html

07 December 2021 What? An article to document how I calculated the start and end dates of when Daylight Savings Time is in effect. Why? Admittedly, most of Zoho apps have this built-in but here's some snippets of code in case you need them. How? I will use this to amend...

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

Zoho CRM/Deluge: Get TimeZone Based on GeoCoded Address (Lat/Lng)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-deluge-get-timezone-based-on-geocoded-address-lat-lng.html

15 December 2021 What? An article with a quick snippet of code which builds up the address from a Lead record to geocode into latitude and longitude coordinates to feed a third-party API which returns a timezone. Why? Our use-case is that we have a field called...

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

Add "Command prompt from here" to right-click context menuhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/add-command-prompt-from-here-to-right-click-context-menu.html

27 January 2010 the File Types tab Scroll down and select (NONE) Folder as file type Click on Advanced Click on New... For the Action type what ever you want the context menu to display, I use Command prompt from here For the Application value type...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Increment a column in MySQL using the UPDATE queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/increment-a-column-in-mysql-using-the-update-query.html

18 February 2010 your table that you use as a counter (storing the value of the counter - eg. times an article has been displayed). Basically what I used to do is something similar to the following: SELECT counter_field_value FROM table1 WHERE column1='this_article' Add...

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