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Item Type Search Internal IDs - Documentation Lacking Vital Search Information

edited Dec 4, 2019 9:09AM in General 2 comments

Please, please, please add this information to the help documentation, either in the SuiteScript Records Browser or in the API reference for nlobjSearchFilter:

For filters, you should always use the internal id. Here is the complete list of item type internal ids:

Assembly
Description
Discount
DwnLdItem
EndGroup
GiftCert
Group
InvtPart
Kit
Markup
NonInvtPart
OthCharge
Payment
Service
ShipItem
Subtotal
TaxGroup
TaxItem

Thanks,

Yang



This information only exists in an obscure usergroup post, it has been languishing there since 2008 and still hasn't been added to the official documentation even after many calls for it to be included.  This is vitally important stuff for anyone searching using SuiteScript, but it's nowhere to be found.  In fact, the SuiteScript record browser provides significant misinformation around this, since the Internal IDs for the "type" field in an item search

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