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Using Externalids in Suitescript to link records.

edited Dec 2, 2019 4:35PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 1 comment

Hi, I'm creating customer and custom records where the parent of the custom record is the customer. I'm extracting the data from an external system and I load the JSON data via a restlet into NetSuite. The issue I'm facing is I can't set the parent customer field on the custom record with suitescript using the externalid. I can use the internalid; however, NetSuite generates this id and it doesn't align with the incoming data. Has anyone faced this issue? My solution, which I don't want to do is to build an array of all the parent customers and run

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