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 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 "Customer's...

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

Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 could they have 10% to display instead of 10.00%, and display 12.5% instead of 12.50%. Well there might be a longer solution without using a regular expression (regex), as in check for the decimal point, check each digit thereafter to see if there are...

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

Zoho CRM: Schedule a Meeting using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-schedule-a-meeting-using-deluge.html

02 March 2022 known as Event) in Zoho CRM. Here's a quick snippet of code to remind me. How? Similar to how to create a call or task, but with some variation: // // initialize m_ScheduleMeeting = Map(); // // specify parent module...

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

Zoho CRM & Creator: Download attachment and upload to Creator file fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-creator-download-attachment-and-upload-to-creator-file-field.html

11 March 2022 cheat here is that we actually want the user to be able to click and download/open the attachments on the CRM record from within the Creator app. As for the add a new attachment, well that's just functionality. Here's my Creator form (well the part for...

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

Zoho Creator: Find Duplicates by Customer Name for Large Datasetshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-find-duplicates-by-customer-name-for-large-datasets.html

12 July 2023 a contact but usually involve entering a customer name or other key to check if there are already records in the system with that key. I can't sit there entering one customer at a time. Even a loop would hit a statement execution limit. Why? My use-case...

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

Zoho Creator: Sendmail a list of attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-send-mail-a-list-of-attachments.html

20 July 2023 This is a very quick article on sending an email with Deluge which needs a dynamic number of files attached to it. Why? This came up during a call with another developer and it occurred to me that perhaps this isn't clearly documented. But there are...

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

Zoho Creator: Error Code 2945: EXTRA KEY FOUND IN JSONhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-error-code-2945-extra_key_found_in_json.html

04 October 2023 zoho.appname, "Quote", m_QuoteRecord, m_Blank, "my_creator_connection"); // // FAILS: with r_Create = {"code":2945,"description":"EXTRA_KEY_FOUND_IN_JSON"} The correct code // initialize m_QuoteRecord = Map(); // // build quote request m_SellerName =...

• 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 An article on adding an accept and decline button on the estimate (aka Quote) notification template within ZohoBooks. Why? The use-case is simply that my client wants to make it easier for their customers to accept or decline a quote. Sure there's a...

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

ZohoCRM Client Script: On Change of Dropdown: Subform Rewrite: REST Functionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-client-script-on-change-of-dropdown-subform-rewrite-rest-function.html

01 April 2025 of "Deposit" and "Final Balance". This rewrites the invoice line items to represent a deposit or a final balance invoice with the deposit deducted. Because these line items have custom fields, we need to copy over all the custom values to the new line...

• 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 file attachment; and no more than 10 files at a time. I have a 1.5 Gb video which has a duration of 5.5 hours. I struggled with this and ultimately used VOSK but I'm leaving the instructions here in case it works for you. Pre-amble Requires Homebriew,...

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

Zoho Deluge: Connect to Shopifyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-connect-to-shopify.html

15 July 2025 A quick article showing 2 ways of connecting to Shopify's REST API with a custom app. Note that this is not for an app embedded in the Shopify instance but for a third-party app, such as a Zoho Creator app, to connect to the data within Shopify. Why? At...

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

ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent quoteshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-xero-function-to-pull-most-recent-quotes.html

13 October 2025 A follow-on article from my previous article ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent invoices - along with their Contacts and Items (accounts/contact & products respectively). Why? This took me so much longer than I thought it would. It was meant...

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

Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/hide-menu-item-from-registered-and-special.html

06 September 2009 Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special Refer to this link if you want to clean out a front-end admin interface with your website's style. The following is from http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=252258&start=0 at this date/time. Can't...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 installed the rokstories module from www.rockettheme.com, if I clicked on one of the articles (rokstory), I would get a page with the article on it but with the following error (3x) above it: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in...

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

SSRS Repeat Headers in PDF Reporthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-repeat-headers-in-pdf-report.html

26 October 2011 tablix and checked the box "Repeat header columns on each page. Situation I have a report which has been set to landscape with zero margins specified. Although BIDS acknowledges that I want this to output to A4 with the correct measurements, the report...

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

DBMS Random Referencehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/dbms-random-reference.html

21 August 2012 How to use the randomization features of Oracle PL/SQL. Why? I've been tasked with writing a stored procedure that scrambles data for developers working with some of our databases containing sensitive data. How? SELECT DBMS_RANDOM.option1[(option2)]...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: *

MS Excel: Convert a text to a numberhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/ms-excel-convert-a-text-to-a-number.html

15 November 2013 The problem is that I have a column which includes the currency symbol as per the following image: I create another column with the symbol omitted using the formula: =SUBSTITUTE(B3, "₱", "") Which leaves the value as a literal string... Now the tricky...

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

VBScript to retrieve Windows Product Keyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/vbscript-to-retrieve-windows-product-key.html

23 September 2015 A quick article with the code to retrieve your product key in Windows 7 with a small VB script file. There are other articles on the web about this but the ones I found returned errors such as WshShell not valid. This article has a working example...

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

Zoho Deluge - Store and repopulate a multi lookup list in Creatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-store-and-repopulate-a-multi-lookup-list-in-creator.html

28 June 2019 to store the entries in the lookup already selected, check against another table/form for valid options, repopulate the list with the selected item and filtering the options available for selection. Why? This was for a multi lookup with staff as the...

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

JComments errors in PHP 7: plgContentJComments and JCommentsACLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jcomments-errors-in-php-7.html

13 March 2020 to document what needed doing to fix the errors. How? First some errors: ERROR: plgContentJComments Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; plgContentJComments has a deprecated...

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