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Problems with nlapiSetFieldText/Value

edited Jan 8, 2020 2:24AM in SuiteCloud / Customization 8 comments

Hi there!
Im having a wierd problem setting values to Dept/Class/Loc fields in a Sales Order.  At the Job level, we have already defined the dept, class and loc and I want this to get sourced when a SO is created.  I tried the nlapiLookupField and that didn't work.

So I created three custom body fields to source these values from the Job and have a post source client script to copy it into the std Dept/Loc/Class fields. 

The issue:
Both nlapiSetFieldText/Value work well only when the lists are a dropdown.  When the number of entries exceeds the Max entries in the dropdown (as per the user's preference) and the field become <type and tab>, the code breaks! nlapiSetFieldText add a "\" at the end and nlapiSetFieldValue does not work at all!

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