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Invalid RecordRef internal ID in search using custom field

edited Jun 5, 2020 1:30PM in SuiteCloud / Customization

I have an application using SuiteTalk to perform some basic searching/displaying of data.  Part of this searching requires me to utilize a custom field within the search criteria.  I have a custom field on the project entity called "custentity_employee_assigned" which points to what employee entity is currently assigned to the project.  I need to do a search for all projects that have a particular employee in this field.

My application was referencing 2013_1 of the SuiteTalk WSDL and was working perfectly fine.  When I attempted to upgrade to using 2014_1 any place that I tried to use a custom field in my search criteria, I starting getting "Invalid RecordRef internalid  for field SearchMultiSelectCustomField" errors.  Here is a code sample:

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