Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html

03 June 2010 following report in design view, only the circled headings would appear on the exported report: The solution I found that worked for me, was to make all the heading boxes the same height and to get rid of all the unnecessary extra gridlines (the ones...

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

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

05 December 2013 be the latest someone works that day. Time is recorded by tasks with an actual duration in seconds (eg. "Monday morning, I worked 45 minutes on setting up a Joomla 2.5.x demo site; I started at 9am and finished at 9:45.", "Monday morning, I also worked...

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

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 $my_description = htmlspecialchars($my_description); Did I miss anything? So none of the above worked. If there is another solution out there, I didn't find one that worked otherwise I'd have included it in this article. How? The fix is a PHP one and...

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

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 This is a bit of an odd article with not 100% certainty on what the cause/outcome would be for your case but worked for us. This documents the steps taken to edit/modify the header on a sales order inventory template. Why? A client raised an issue that...

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

PC Build 2022: 5 Monitors connected to 1 PC using 1 GPUhttps://www.joellipman.com/pc-build-2022-5-monitors-connected-to-1-pc-using-1-gpu.html

12 March 2022 Graphics Card to one of the Acer monitors DisplayPort to DVI (had to purchase this cable - twice as 2nd was dual-link and worked, first single-link didn't) to the 2nd Acer monitor. DisplayPort to Mini-DisplayPort: from the Graphics Card DP port to the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Articles
• Language: *

Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 a function that given an invoice, checks the customer payments and updates the custom fields. Executing the function this worked as expected. Now put it on a workflow where the settings were: When an invoice is "Created or Edited" Execute the workflow...

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

Oracle SQL - Convert given list (CSV) into Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/oracle-sql-convert-given-list-csv-into-rows.html

30 August 2011 a quick note as to something that worked for me. Taken from the Oracle forums @ https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6861756 Situation I have one column of values that I've suffixed a comma to but I want to display this as a rows in a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

How to run a .RUN filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/how-to-run-a-run-file.html

19 September 2009 Select 'Properties' Select the 'Permissions' tab Tick the 'Execute' checkbox Conclusion The solution using the terminal worked for me but the second one using Gnome didn't.

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

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/installing-phpbb3-for-joomla-with-a-rockettheme-template.html

28 September 2009 prosilver from the "Styles", "Themes", and "Imagesets", my first phpBB3 index page with the affinity template finally worked!!! Chuffed to bits as you might imagine but clicking on any other link returned an error something along the lines of "template...

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

Running Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 as standaloneshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/running-internet-explorer-6-7-8-as-standalones.html

18 May 2010 Intro I know there are a lot of articles on the WWW detailing this process but none of them really worked for me. I recently changed job and no longer have all my test machines at work. Instead I only have the one workstation :eek Still I've been asked...

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

UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/utf8-unicode-php-mysql-for-international-characters.html

22 October 2010 ); $rows = $db->loadObjectList(); foreach( $rows as $row ) { $id = $row->id; $title = $row->title; } This fix has so far worked for Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, and Slovak. Fingers crossed this should work for all characters that Joomla! can handle...

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

Parameters not being used in report processinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/parameters-not-being-used-in-report-processing.html

07 January 2011 European Given a Campus as a text value, the SQL query was ignoring this completely Hardcoding the scalar local variables worked I have two parameters that will be submitted (GivenDate and GivenCampus). Consider the following script: --...

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

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 deletes the Installation folder. Avoid installing Sample Data if possible (there will be some but this script has been reworked to potentially accommodate). Download my migration script Decide on which script to use: If you have a small site (less than...

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

CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbarshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-background-without-causing-scrollbars.html

23 April 2011 of CSS overflow auto hidden etc. all to no avail. What I didn't want when I resize the web browser, a scrollbar! What worked for me: Specify the DIV layer width to be 100 percent of the page. Position the module with absolute on your webpage with...

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

Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html

05 April 2011 spend 30 minutes googling and reading up on is asking for an article on my own site. Besides this is how I did it and what worked for me... Set the default values for your from and to date respectively: -- From Date (european format - dd/mm/yyyy)...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

CSS keeping the footer at the bottomhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-keeping-the-footer-at-the-bottom.html

25 April 2011 enough time trying different methods across the web but only 1 article worked for me using the "push" div layer. Loosely based on Ryanfait: Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page Aim: Header Left Right Footer Situation The header displayed fine....

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

Creating a Profile Plugin for Joomla 1.6https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/creating-a-profile-plugin-for-joomla-16.html

27 April 2011 the official Joomla 1.6 documentation: http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_profile_plugin and I want to use an example that worked for me. Important: This is for Joomla version 1.6.x+. Aim / Objective Add a field with a dropdown list. Add a button to...

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

Checklist for the local computer repairshttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/checklist-for-the-local-computer-repairs.html

28 April 2011 and emergencies, added 20/hour Add 20 for restore disk Questions for customers: What do you need to do? Last time it worked? Emails received since? Programs installed since? Alternative documents/programs to do this? Same errors on another computer?...

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

SSRS / MDX Date Querieshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-mdx-date-queries.html

03 August 2011 in SSRS. The below is derived from a collection of various sources across the web as well as some of my own. These are what worked in my environment: WinXP, BIDS (vs2008), TFS (vs2010), SSRS 2008 R2. The following examples assume today's date is...

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

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

02 September 2011 everyone had a different setup to us and their solutions were complex coding solutions and ultimately the wrong route as we worked out our own solution. ssrs run oracle stored procedure execute call oracle stored procedure in ssrs ssrs oracle stored...

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