Relate/link vendor bill to purchase order in Netsuite - netsuite

Question

I have created vendor bill with nlapiCreateRecord, I can see the Bill record in the system with all items I want, but I can't relate it / link it to specific Purchase Order natively. When I'm using nlapiTransformRecord I'm deleting all records first from the PO and I'm adding new line items from CSV, but the native link/relationship between PO and Vendor Bill is missing. Here is my code created for the Bill Import from CSV:
function BillImport() {
var fromrecord;
var fromid;
var torecord;
var record;
var qty;
fromrecord = 'purchaseorder';
fromid = 23664;
torecord = 'vendorbill';
var loadedBillFile = nlapiLoadFile(5034);
var loadedBillString = loadedBillFile.getValue();
var BillLines = loadedBillString.split('\r\n'); //split on newlines
record = nlapiTransformRecord(fromrecord, fromid, torecord);
//trecord.setFieldValue('location', 1);
//trecord.setFieldValue('tranid', 'TEST!');
//var record = nlapiCreateRecord('vendorbill');
for (var j = record.getLineItemCount('item'); j>=1; j--)
{
record.removeLineItem('item',j);
}
for (var i = 1; i < BillLines.length; i++) {
var cols = BillLines[i].split(';');
var dsplit = cols[4].split(".");
var date = new Date(dsplit[2],dsplit[1],dsplit[0]);
currentDate = date.getMonth() + '/' + date.getDate() + '/' + date.getFullYear();
var entity = cols[0]; // OK HEAD
var currency = cols[1]; // OK LINE
var taxcode = cols[2]; // SKIP
var tranid = cols[3]; // OK HEAD
var trandate = currentDate; // OK HEAD FORMAT 11/3/2016
var location = 21;//cols[5]; // OK HEAD (ID of Location)
var item = cols[6]; // OK LINE
var quantity = cols[7];
var rate = parseFloat(cols[8]); // FLOAT
var amount = parseFloat(cols[9]);
var po = cols[10];
record.selectNewLineItem('item');
// Head Level
record.setFieldValue('createdfromstatus','');
record.setFieldValue('entity', entity);
record.setFieldValue('tranid', tranid);
record.setFieldValue('trandate', trandate);
record.setFieldValue('location', location);
// Line Level
record.setCurrentLineItemValue('item','item', item);
record.setCurrentLineItemValue('item','quantity', quantity);
record.setCurrentLineItemValue('item','rate', rate);
record.setCurrentLineItemValue('item','amount', amount);
//record.setCurrentLineItemValue('item','orderdoc', po);
//record.setCurrentLineItemValue('item','podocnum', po);
record.commitLineItem('item');
}
var id = nlapiSubmitRecord(record, true);
//trecord.setLineItemValue('item', 'amount', 1, 3 );
//var idl = nlapiSubmitRecord(trecord, true);
}
Here is the example CSV file:
Entity;Currency;Taxcode;Tranid;TranDate;Location;Item;Quantity;Rate;Amount;PO Internal ID
2449;USD;0.00 ;224676;11.3.2016;21;885;1;10;50;23664
2449;USD;0.00 ;224676;11.3.2016;21;870;2;10;120;23664
2449;USD;0.00 ;224676;11.3.2016;21;890;3;3;45;23664
2449;USD;0.00 ;224676;11.3.2016;21;948;4;4,66;38,5;23664
2449;USD;0.00 ;224676;11.3.2016;21;886;5;19,54;720;23664
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Answer 1

If you don't want it to transform into a Vendor Bill (probably to avoid the PO from changing status) then you will need to create a custom relationship. You do this by:
Create a custom field on the Vendor Bill form of type "List/Record" and have the it be of "Transaction" type and check "Record is Parent". Save the Custom Field.
Go back to the custom field and edit it. Go to the display tab and select a "Parent Subtab", I usually select "Related Records". Save.
Now you just need to create a new Vendor Bill from scratch and save the record id of the PO in the Vendor Bill using the new custom field. Leave the "Created From" field blank, otherwise you would be linking them natively. The Bill should be listed under the "Related Records" tab or whichever subtab you selected on the PO.

Answer 2

Vendor bill import via CSV method is doable but you can bill the Purchase Order completely and not partially i.e. if you try to import a bill mentioning any referenced Purchase Order's link in it, it'll create a bill for all the remaining unbilled quantities of the Purchase Order rather than the quantity you have mentioned.
Actually if you mention any quantity AND Purchase Order link BOTH in the CSV file then it will throw an error.
Below is the part I found from the SuiteAnswers with answer id as 10020.
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