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nlapiSearchRecord OVERWRITES saved search?

edited Dec 2, 2019 6:28PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 9 comments

I noticed today that nlapiSearchRecord, when used with both a saved search id and column objects will write the column objects to the saved search.

Here is a simple example:
Saved transaction search, ID 1234.
Criteria: Type is Sales Order
Results: Amount (Sum)

Now I perform this search from script with an additional result column:

 var columns = new Array();  columns[0] = new nlobjSearchColumn('item',null,'group');  searchResults = nlapiSearchRecord('transaction',1234,null,columns);


Next, I go back to the UI and edit my saved search #1234.  It now contains Item (group) in the results tab.  Not only that, if I run this script more than once, I get multiple entries of Item (group) in my saved search. 

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