Sometimes it's the smallest slice of a project that demands the most ingenuity. What seemed like a simple enhancement to a Saved Search ended up stretching my understanding of NetSuite’s formula logic—and my patience. 🔍 The Objective I needed to compare two types of project actions occurring within a 30-day window. Here’s the twist: Project Actions are a custom child record of a NetSuite Project (Job) , and they’re not stored in a way that makes direct comparison easy. So, I had to retrieve them through a Project Search , pulling in individual Action records via joins—first hurdle cleared. 📅 Date Math, NetSuite Style Next came the math. I needed to calculate whether one action happened within 30 days of another, but NetSuite doesn’t make date arithmetic feel intuitive. My first instinct was to use TO_NUMBER() to convert the dates into values I could compute on. Spoiler: it didn’t work. So I tried a workaround—subtracting a fixed reference date ( TO_DATE('01/01/2000...
Issue: We had a request from our Stakeholders to change a Multi-Select Field to a Single Select. The Issue came up with this field being part of a bundle that we use. We didn't want to deal with this being reverted or causing issues after we updated the bundle in the future, so I cam up with this work around. It is a Client Script that will throw an error to the user if they select more than one, and then it will reduce the selection to one option. /** * @NApiVersion 2.x * @NScriptType ClientScript * * 2025 Prevents multiple selections in a multi-select field * by showing an error message and removing the last selected value. * */ define ([ 'N/ui/message' , 'N/runtime' ], function ( message , runtime ) { function fieldChanged ( context ) { var scriptObj = runtime . getCurrentScript (); var fieldName = scriptObj . getParameter ({ ...