SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html

07 March 2014 few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases (internal auditing) only showed how long the SQL query would take to recover the data and present it in a report, which would average about 0.4 seconds. We're obviously not interested...

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

Zoho CRM: Update a custom field in line items / product details using REST API v2.1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-update-a-custom-field-in-line-items-product-details.html

17 May 2021 label "Group Name" but API name "Grouping" in a list item column. The standard code you used to use even for REST API v2.0 would have been something like the following: // // init l_CrmLineItems = List(); // // some sample values v_CrmProductID =...

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

Zoho Creator: Prevent Endless Loops On User Input of a Fieldhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-prevent-endless-loops-on-user-input-of-a-field.html

19 September 2021 and pasted for each field, especially if they're doing the same thing for example displaying a preview in a notes field. We would rather only have to update the code for 1 workflow rather than 20 workflows every time we want to tweak the code. There are...

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

Stop Excel Row Height Self-Adjust on Refreshhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/stop-excel-row-height-self-adjust-on-refresh.html

30 September 2011 departments so for example: SELECT Date, Reservation, Contact, JobTitle, Dept FROM my_imaginary_table WHERE Contact='Joe' Would become SELECT Date, Reservation, Contact, JobTitle, CHAR(10) + Dept + CHAR(10) AS Dept FROM my_imaginary_table WHERE...

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

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

04 November 2011 commits but unfortunately SSRS process both the Stored Procedure and the SELECT at the same time; this meant the report would say the process failed but when I check the logs, it successfully ran the stored procedure (updating both tables). The...

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

Licence GNU/GPLhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/licence-gnugpl.html

03 April 2009 Program or a work based on the Program. To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Zoho Cliq: Integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT 3.5 Turbohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-cliq-integrate-openai-and-chatgpt-3-5-turbo.html

13 February 2023 API and ChatGPT... Note that I have another article for those who want to integrate ChatGPT with ZohoZIA. Why? Previously, I would edit the message handlers of a Cliq Bot I created but it would only understand the questions I have programmed it to and...

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

Change default order of weblinkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/change-default-order-of-weblinks.html

15 November 2009 and you are going to edit the _buildQuery() function, search the file for the following comment and text. As always, I would recommend you make a copy of the file before making the change just in case you need to revert the change: // We need to get a...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 Say you want to get the value of the 1st element in the 1st form, which will be the Search for Keywords Input Box. The path would look like this (a collection of objects starts at 0): Code: document.forms[0].elements[0].value Now if you want to show the...

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

Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 the process and what that process was. Reading the brief, and having written many custom functions for other Zoho apps, it would stand to reason that the process would be: allow a user to apply for leave, then on save/submit, auto approve/reject the...

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

Zoho Webhooks & Shopify API: Keep Disappearinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-webhooks-shopify-api-automatically-restore.html

22 April 2024 restores a missing webhook as well as the snippets when receiving the webhooks and storing them. Why? We found that Shopify would intermittently remove our webhooks. This would make the entire synchronization of the system go out of whack and some...

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

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

20 March 2025 It's a cop-out I know, but it beats the accounts staff having to enter the adjustment each time. The create invoice process would be treated the same. The below are all the various methods I tried to resolve this but the truth is that I do not have a...

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

SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

14 January 2011 within Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). Weekdays along the top and then dates inside. Additionally we would like this linked to events in a database. I'm calling this project "Reinventing the Wheel" because the request was a report that...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• 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 to them. Prepare for Go Live This migration script is not a silver bullet. It was created to take away the hours I know I would spend without it. This is not an upgrade; it is likely that your client may reconsider the template they are using or may...

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

T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 have googled, binged and asked but to no avail. Some self-proclaimed IT experts in forums said "why would you want to do that?". Unhelpful Bellends. It's a bit like asking me "Why can't I turn on my computer" and me replying "why would you want to do...

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

SSRS Zero Paddinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-zero-padding.html

10 November 2011 Reminder I didn't want to do this at the database level, mainly because it meant modifying the SQL query. The zero padding would need to be applicable within an MDX query. The Situation We have a database using Oracle 10g, and a SQL Server Reporting...

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

Background Gradient Disappears on Long Pageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/background-disappears-on-long-pages.html

20 November 2012 me a while to figure out what was the problem, I'd visit some pages and they'd be fine, but when visiting a long page, it would initially display properly but then the white background would disappear when the page finally loaded. How? The root cause...

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

Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

21 January 2013 all was good using Chrome and tolerable using MS Internet Explorer. If we maximized the Google Chrome browser, the row would split and there would be 2 boxes on the top row and the third would pop under these. As for MSIE, that was ok when maximized....

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

MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html

12 April 2013 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top. Why? The excel report would hit a bug where it couldn't work out that 10 (Wednesday) happened after 8 (Monday). How? See the following screenshot and note...

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

SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

23 April 2013 This is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud: Error: The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code...

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