megaphone
Update your Profile with your Support type to get your Support Type badge.
Nominate Your Peers for NetSuite Support Community's Choice of the Quarter! Submit your nomination today.
Stay in the know of how NetSuite can help grow your business with our guides, webinars, and events. Subscribe Here
What Topic Should We Cover Next? Your idea could be our next feature—drop your suggestion now!
No Limits. Just possibilities. Join us for complimentary one-day events around the world and step into a future fueled by AI and limitless potential. Discover what's next at SuiteConnect Tour 2026.
Try Intelligent Payment Automation – Fee Free For Your First Month For more information, visit this thread.
New AI Community Guidelines. Please review and follow them to ensure AI use stays safe, accurate, and compliant.
Don't miss out on our Pop Quiz! You only have until tomorrow, March 27, 2026, 2:00PM ET to comment your answers.

Discussions
Stay up-to-date with the latest news from NetSuite. You’ll be in the know about how to connect with peers and take your business to new heights at our virtual, in-person, on demand events, and much more.
Now is the time to ask your NetSuite-savvy friends and colleagues to join the NetSuite Support Community! Refer now! Click here to watch and learn more!
New AI Community Guidelines. Please review and follow them to ensure AI use stays safe, accurate, and compliant.
Stay in the Know

Be sure you're subscribed to NetSuite communication to stay in the know about monthly happenings, updates and announcements. Subscribe

Setting value on custom transaction field for Sales Order

edited Jan 8, 2020 2:22AM in SuiteCloud / Customization 1 comment

The problem I'm trying to solve is to get the actual unique item # (itemid) to display on the Sales Order when printed out in PDF version. The customer gets a confirmation email upon a weborder (with the unique itemid and a description) but the default Netsuite PDF layout for sales order only displays the description.

I created a custom transaction colum field called 'custcol_cust_tcol_item_num_pdf' with the intent to source this directly from the standard transaction field item (itemid). This custom field would hold the unique item # which I then expose on the PDF layout so I can print out the item # on customer orders. I want to invoke this code once the user saves the Sales Order so as a SAVERECORD or BEFORESAVE function. My code looks like this:

Howdy, Stranger!

Log In

To view full details, sign in.

Register

Don't have an account? Click here to get started!

Leaderboard

Community Whiz

Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar 2026)

This Week's Leaders

This Month's Leaders

All Time Leaders