Is this possible to set or override the internalid of a custom record type ?
The internalid is self generated, but I want to try to set inernalid value from a cvs field.
I do not believe you can override the internalid of any record instance, even a custom one. You can, however, use the externalid field that I believe every record has if you want to specify a "secondary" identifier for the record.
You cannot override the internal ID of a record. As mentioned in a previous response to your question, you can (and should) set the external ID field on the NetSuite records to equal the primary key of the data being imported.
On future imports that update NetSuite data, you simply map the key field of the imported data to the external ID field in NetSuite. You can ignore the internal ID field on those future imports, as Netsuite will match up the records based upon the external ID.
This is the proper way to do this - I've seen tons of situations where people did not understand the external ID concept, and created huge, long term maintenance issues by not following this simple solution.
OK. Given your feedback, why not create another custom field on the customer record that references the lookup value in the custom record?
The field type should be the same as the field type of the lookup value, with "store value" checkbox unchecked. On the Sourcing and Filtering tab, you specify the custom record type and field to reference. Think of it as a SQL join of sorts between the customer record and custom record.
Then, you should be able to do what you want with 2 getCurrentAttribute tags:
<%= getcurrentattribute('cusomter', 'custentity_mappingid')%>
<%= getcurrentattribute('cusomter', 'custentity_mappingvalue')%>
BTW, your custom field internal IDs look a little odd. They should start with 'custentity', and 'custrecord', respectively. My code above reflects what you'd normally expect from NetSuite.
You can set ExternalId and if you want to get record then you can use callGetRecordByExternalId .
public ReadResponse callGetRecordByExternalId(String externalId, RecordType recordType) throws RemoteException {
return this.callGetRecord(Utils.createRecordRefWithExternalId(externalId, recordType));
}
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I am writing suitescripts (currently 2.1) and one thing I am trying to do is to know what type of record a particular field on a record is. In suiteTalk this can be done via the recordRef's .type being looked at such as a Sales order's Entity field is a record ref that would say entity and you can know the record type from there. (Similarly for a custom record a transaction may have a field which may have a type of custRec_MyCustSpecialField, etc). In suitescript when i get a field from a given record and try to look at it's .type it will give me integer, string, select etc. As in the event of the Entity field it's type is "select" and not really "Entity" and I can't find any way to get that true type. I wondered if anyone had any ideas. The idea here is that I wanted this to be dynamic so no matter what field I was trying to look at, I could further dig into it (for example maybe trying to find a field/fields that reside in that reference fields values (Maybe an address's state for example) but I can't find a way to do that. I realize the record catalog can be of assistance here if you were looking on your own but I was hoping to find a way inside my script itself.
I would use record.load or record.getFields but both of those require both an ID (which i think i could provide) as well as a type which is what I am struggling to be able to generate or find in scripting.
I am using E-commerce module of Kentico portal and it has two fields for Products pricing : SKUPrice and SKURetailPrice.
I needed one more field to show sell price and I added a new field in Modules application of the portal.(Modules->E-Commerce->Classes->SKU->Fields->New Field)
Now, I need to access this field in my code,but SKUInfo class doesn't show me the newly added field.What I need to do so that the newly added field reflects in my project code ?
I have already build the entire solution multiple times.Any other solutions please.
You can use GetValue and SetValue methods for such fields like this:
SKUInfo sku = ...;
string a = sku.GetValue("field").ToString();
sku.SetValue("field", "value");
JanH has the answer for custom fields you set, also keep in mind though that there is a "SKUCustomData" for other information that you want to store. It takes a Name-Value pair dictionary if memory serves me correctly, and useful if you need to store configuration information or other things that won't be located on the normal SKU table.
According to the help pop up:
ID
This field's value represents the script ID, used to identify this
record for scripting purposes. It is a text field.
Internal ID
This field's value is a read-only system-generated unique identifier.
It is an integer field.
Both fields seem to uniquely identity a record type.
One is a string, one a integer.
The string ID is used for searches and
loading of records, but I've also seen Internal ID used when
referring to a record type from a lists point of view.
Can anyone provide the reasoning behind having two identifiers and when to use one versus the other when scripting?
The major difference is that you (as the creator of a custom record or script) are in complete control of the text ID. You can establish patterns and best practices for defining these IDs, and it will make it very easy for developers to identify record types just by looking at the string ID. You have no control over the numeric ID. When looking at code, it is much easier for me to determine what records I am referring to if it looks like:
nlapiSearchRecord('customrecord_product', null, filters, columns);
nlapiResolveURL('SUITELET', 'customscript_sl_orderservice', 'customdeploy_sl_orderservice')
as opposed to looking at:
nlapiSearchRecord(118, null, filters, columns);
nlapiResolveURL('SUITELET', 13, 1)
I'm not even sure the second nlapiSearchRecord actually works, but I know that nlapiResolveURL can be written that way.
That said, if you simply let NetSuite generate the text ID, you'll end up with generic IDs like customrecord1, which I find no more useful than the numeric ID. It is a good practice to explicitly specify your own IDs.
Furthermore, the numeric ID can vary between environments (e.g. Sandbox could be different than Production, until a subsequent refresh occurs). If you are following good migration practices, then the text ID should never vary between environments, so your code would not have to make any kind of decision on which ID to use based on environment.
Rarely have I found myself referencing any record, whether native or custom, by its numeric ID; scripts are always using the text ID to reference a record type.
Is there a way to get list of all record types - both standard and custom (employee, lead, customer etc.) and their fields using APIs (SOAP or REST) in Netsuite?
List of all supported records through Suitescript is available at https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/RecordsBrowser/2012_2/index.html
List of all supported records through Websrevices is available at
http://tellsaqib.github.io/NSPHP-Doc/class_record.html
For getting List of all field available for a particular record type use getAllFields() and getAllLineItemFields(group)
http://dreamxtream.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/getting-all-fields/
For getting list of Custom Field using Webservices use
http://tellsaqib.github.io/NSPHP-Doc/class_net_suite_service.html#a628c9eb07887e8a540481850696f7a0e
The answer given by Saqib is correct. If you want to show them in a select field you could use this function.
var form = nlapiCreateForm('New Form');
form.addField('custpage_field', 'select', 'Select A Record Type', '-123'); //Here -123 is the internal id for the record types given to the source for the addField function.
You could get all the internal id's of the record types you could create from this link(in the List/Record Type IDs).
https://system.na1.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/Output/Help/section_N3144618.html#bridgehead_N3147714
How do you create a lookup column to a Document Library that uses the 'Name' of the document as the lookup value?
I found a blog post that recommends adding another custom field like "FileName" and then using a item reciever to populate the custom field with the value from the Name field but that seems cheesy.
Link to the blog in case people are interested:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pranab/archive/2008/01/08/sharepoint-2007-moss-wss-issue-with-lookup-column-to-doc-lib-name-field.aspx
I've got a bunch of custom document content types that I dont want to clutter with a work around that should really work anyway.
I created a one step workflow to set the title from the name, fired on modify and created. Seems to work and took seconds to create.
One way you can do this (although not the easiest way) is by creating a custom field type that extends the SPFieldLookup class. SharePoint's field editor for Lookup fields purposefully hides any columns types that aren't supported by Lookup fields, but you can create a field editor for your custom field type that shows them.
However, I have created a Lookup column that points to a Name column in a Document Library before, and it probably doesn't work like you'd expect. While the value stored in the lookup column is valid, it doesn't show up right in List view or on the View Properties form.
The solution you posted may actually be the best way to handle this. Lookup fields require some kludges if you want to handle more complex scenarios, but that's because they're not meant to provide the same functionality as a foreign key relationship in a database.
Coding in any form always scares me. So Here's what I did: I simply renamed the Stupid "Title" Field to something else, say "Keywords", since you cant do anything with that field: cant even make it mandatory.
Then I created another Single line field called "Title" and used this field for the Lookups
Well there is a simple solution to that and in might work in some case.
In the nutshell if you make the Title field Mandatory, this will force the user to enter a title. In that manner we can use title field as a lookup field.
Now How to do that?
One you are done create a document library go to the library setting. Select Advance Setting and Select Yes for the option "Allow management of content types?".
Then go back to the Library setting and Under content types select the "Document" Content type. THen Select Title Column and then Select "Required (Must contain information)" and say OK.
Now try uploading a document to this document library. You will see Title field in the form.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Vaqar
You have to add the field as XML with the ShowField as 'FileLeafRef'
var XmlFieldDefinition = "<Field DisplayName='myLookupColumn' Type='LookupMulti' StaticName='myLookupColumn' Name='myLookupColumn' Required='FALSE' List='THE LOOKUP ID HERE' WebId='THE WEB ID HERE' UnlimitedLengthInDocumentLibrary='TRUE' Mult='TRUE' Sortable='FALSE' ShowField='FileLeafRef' />"
Field fld = fieldCollection.AddFieldAsXml(XmlFieldDefinition, true, AddFieldOptions.DefaultValue);
ClientContext.Load(fld);
ClientContext.ExecuteQuery();