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Why would nlapiInitiateWorkflow() throw "RCRD_HAS_BEEN_CHANGED" exception?

edited Dec 2, 2019 5:45PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 3 comments

Howdy everyone,

I have a scheduled script that is processing a few hundred sales orders daily. It *mostly* works fine, but there are 10-15 events a day where the call to nlapiInitiateWorkflow() results in NetSuite throwing a

RCRD_HAS_BEEN_CHANGED

exception. I've checked and verified there are no updates in my code, it's a dead simple script, 71 lines most of which are infrastructure and plumbing.

Considering we can't pass an nlobjRecord reference to the nlapiInitiateWorkflow() method I don't see how I can be the cause of a concurrency fault. I'm tempting to put a simple retry mechanism in place but I'd rather understand WHY this is happening first.

Steve Klett | Senior Developer
NetValue Technology

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