I am currently trying to create a NetSuite restlet that searches through all my vendor bills for bills that have a file in the Communications tab and then downloads the file.
My issue is that I can't seem to access the Files Sublist within the Communications tab. It looks likes the Files Sublist is a STATICLIST type (which isn't available for scripting according to this), so I need a workaround.
Has anyone dealt with this problem before?
I've done a customization similar with this problem before. You should be using a Saved Search and add your Vendor Bill ID as filter. There is a field called File (Line) Fields... and File Fields.... You can make use of their internal IDs.
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I need to expose the pdf version of a NetSuite invoice in my ecommerce site. I'm using saved searches to push up invoice header info but I want to be able to click a link and it will download the NetSuite invoice pdf.
The link to the PDF of an Invoice record looks like this:
/app/accounting/print/hotprint.nl?regular=T&sethotprinter=T&formnumber=102&id=3253&label=Invoice&printtype=transaction&trantype=custinvc
You can use a formula column in your search that dynamically fills in the correct parameters and generates an appropriate <a> tag.
You need to mark the PDF files in the File Cabinet to be "Available Without Login", this should provide you with an External URL you can use to download.
Here is what you can do : taking in consideration that you want the file to be accessible without netsuite login:
To access a file without login, it must be in file cabinet and with "Available without login" checked but when you click on Print in netsuite, this doesn't save the generated file in the file cabinet, so here is what you can do:
Add a custom transaction body field of type free-text or url.
Create a userevent script that trigger on aftersubmit (I'm here giving a general idea, so you can set it otherwise if you want).
Using the "render" (suitescript 2.0) : you can generate the PDF of your Invoice, save the file in the file cabinet with "Available without login" checked.
After saving the file, reload it and get its external url and save it in the custom field created in (1).
Updated your Saved Search to add the new field as a result column
Good luck :)
I am trying to implement a document management system using Sharepoint. One major issue is that colleagues cannot find documents in the current setup (local fileserver). They have asked that we have a system that scans uploaded documents and automatically looks for keywords in them and then populates a "Meta" column.
I have had sort of success with OCR on image files, but getting keywords out of office documents (doc, xls etc.) I have had no success until now.
Is there a way to setup a flow to do this task for me?
any help is much aprechiated.
i tried "Get file metadata" and Azure "Text analysis", but it seems to take the raw data of the files (XML I assume) and returns that the document is to large to analyse.
There is something vague about this requirement - how is a keyword defined in a document?
Therefore, first obvious solution would be to assign keywords for each file upon uploading it. You may create a process for this with flow - have tasks, reminders and so on.
Automating this with OCR first means that you need to user OCR that works with MS flow you have only one choice - ElasticOCR. Then, in your flow
- feed the document content to the ElasticOCR action
- keep in mind that OCR is not 100% accurate
- analyze the generated text content according to your keyword definition
- finally write the meta back to the library in the corresponding columns.
Having worked on a similar requirement, we asked uploaders to publish their documents with a short abstract(column from the content type). The assumption is the abstract contains the keywords and is stored in a multi-line column - making it searchable site wide.
Backgorund:
I am a newbie in the NetSuite world. We are trying to integrate NetSuite with our ERP and I am doing some preliminary research to find out what would be the best option moving ahead. The primary objective of the first task is to download huge volume of data from NetSuite to our end and find alternatives approaches.
I did some research on SuiteScript/SuiteTalk/Analytics and some facts I have come to find and my questions are below:
Custom search can be created and save SuiteScript/SuiteTalk.
This saved search can be invoked via both SuiteScript as well as SuiteTalks
Well have a confusion, is the Saved Search the View, which SuiteAnalytics can access? (NOT MY MAIN QUESTION THOUGH!!).
Using SuiteScript, return of Saved Search execution can be saved on as a flat file, and that file can be moved to File Cabinet. Exposing a REST API using RESTlet, this file can be downloded. [But have not implemented this yet!!]
[MAIN QUESTION] IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO THE SAME, CREATE A FLAT FILE AT NETSUITE END USING SUITTALK? AND ALSO HOW TO DO SAVE/MOVE THE FILE TO FILE CABINET AFTER THAT?
I have not researched more on the topic File Cabinet and how a created file or files here are indexed?
Or Is it better to load whole result set from the SOAP call?
Your comments are highly appreciated!
Thank you!
You can certainly execute a saved search via SuiteTalk. You can also loop through all the results of the saved search and do whatever you'd like with those results, such as create a text file.
The SuiteTalk API also allows for accessing the File Cabinet to create or retrieve files, with limitations on file size.
Suitetalk can be used to create File and move file from a folder to another by changing the folder internalId of the fileObject.
Since you are using the Suitetalk to create/load Saved Search; you are required to create and save the CSV at your end using the search result and then move the file to file cabinet.
Since your objective is to get huge data from NetSuite I would recommend below option:
Use Scheduled script/Map Reduce to build a file and place it in required folder of file cabinet
Using Suitetalk you can extract that file. (Note: You don't need REST do this job. You can get the fileContents and store the result at your end. You cannot directly store the file. You will have to store the filecontents)
Thanks #netsuite-guru and #suite-resources!
So doing some further research, and considering your recommendations, the server side(at NETSUITE) scripting can be done only using SuiteScript to achieve the goal of automating - READ from NetSuite and WRITE to File to FILECABINET!
Also found another good read thread as an option to MapReduce link
But would go with "Scheduled script/Map Reduce" at this time.
How can I batch print all items in a list including attached documents (word. pdf)?
So functionally I need: one report/document which includes all info from attached documents inline within that report. The user only has to print out that single report.
Could it be done with Reporting Services? Or a commercial component?
Many thanks!
you can use a script to merge the word documents, or to print all the documents. Reporting services helps you generate the documents not in merging them.
If you use a component such as iTextSharp you can create all of the applicable reports and then bundle them into a single PDF and return them to the user. I've done this for a number of projects and it works great. I was also able to join PDFs generated from SSRS with some PDF documents from other sources.
One of our customers has a problem that we cannot reproduce. We programmatically copy a document's properties to a destination file using SPFile.Properties. However, for some reason the file's properties do not match the meta data specified on the list the file is stored in.
Now, we can probably solve this by copying SPFile.Item.Properties (not tested yet), but I am just wondering under what circumstances SPFile.Properties is unequal to SPFile.Item.Properties.
Update: We have just received an update from our customer. Using SPFile.Item.Properties always returns the up to date information. However, we still would like to understand the original question.
There is a slight difference between SPFile.Properties and SPFile.Item fields and the first one is much, much slower to call.
You have most probably seen Microsoft Office document's "properties" window (this one - http://dradisframework.org/images/tutorial/custom_document_properties.png). These are the properties that are read when you access SPFile.Properties. Reading them is slow since there is some code infrastructure that parses the binary DOC file and finds the properties. (takes up to 30 or something milliseconds for every property access) See more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfile.properties.aspx
In SharePoint, every item is an SPListItem and its field values (and I don't use the word "properties" on purpose here) are stored in Sharepoint's content database. So, when you access SPFile.Item.Properties, you actually look at the SPListItem to which the file is attached and look at its properties from SharePoint's content database.
What happens behind the scene, when you upload a file having some "Office properties" set, is that SharePoint copies them to same-named fields in SPListItem. (Some information about it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2004/11/22/267846.aspx)
This is why these properties typically have the same value, BUT it only happens if SharePoint knows how to read metadata from your file and write them back. So, in case you put a .txt file in your SharePoint store, you will not get any SPFile.Properties back.
The user will always see the ListItem Properties and not the SPFile properties in a document library. So using the ListItem properties in the copy is the way to go.
I believe this issue is related to the Sharepoint property promotion/demotion feature which enables document properties to be embedded in the physical MSOffice file and travel with it to the client etc. This however is only supported currently for Office file types (to my knowledge).
Jonathan
Trying to find the "official documented" anything for sharepoint is pretty much undoable. :-D. The online docs suck, you are better of using blog entries etc.
P.S. I agree with Alex here. Although an SPFile never exists in a list without an accompanying SPListItem, the connection between the 2 can get corrupted (i.e. being able to edit the list item but the file is not openable). This to me indicates information about the 2 is stored in different locations in the content db. I have had this happen before.