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Referencing a field on a vendor record FROM an item record
OK all you scripting pro’s. I’m starting to cut my teeth into the scripting world and have run into an issue.
I have what I THINK is a pretty simple question but can’t seem to figure it out.
HOW do you access a vendor subrecord FROM an inventory record?
I have a field on the vendor record that I want to check after the vendor has been sourced on the item record.
Here is what I have so far:
function postSource(type,name)
{
var testEnable = nlapiGetCurrentLineItemValue('itemvendor', 'custentity_loc_01_inv_enable_ven');
alert("testEnable= " + testEnable);
}
this SHOULD get me the value of the field on the vendor record but no matter what I do it comes back as
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