Discussions
Stay up-to-date with the latest news from NetSuite. You’ll be in the know about how to connect with peers and take your business to new heights at our virtual, in-person, on demand events, and much more.
Now is the time to ask your NetSuite-savvy friends and colleagues to join the NetSuite Support Community! Refer now! Click here to watch and learn more!
Stay in the Know
Be sure you're subscribed to NetSuite communication to stay in the know about monthly happenings, updates and announcements. Subscribe
Be sure you're subscribed to NetSuite communication to stay in the know about monthly happenings, updates and announcements. Subscribe
Please note that on Friday, March 20, 2026, at 8:00 PM Pacific time, our Case Management System will undergo a scheduled maintenance for approximately 4 hours. During this time, case creation via SuiteAnswers will be unavailable and inbound calls will be routed to Customer Service.
Null contactList for customer
I am retrieving a customer record using NetSuiteService.get, however the resulting customer record returned has a null contact list (and a lot of other null properties). I know there are contacts for this customer and I have tried multiple customers. I also swear that my code worked fine previously, as I have written other code that relies on the contactList. Can anyone shed light on this?
Here is some example code to re-produce the problem:
NetSuiteService service = new NetSuiteService(); service.Url = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SuiteTalkUrl"]; service.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer(); // Invoke the login operation Passport passport = new Passport(); passport.account = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SuiteTalkAccount"]; passport.password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SuiteTalkPassword"]; passport.email = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SuiteTalkEmail"]; RecordRef role = new RecordRef(); role.internalId = "18"; passport.role = role; var result = service.login(passport); if (!result.status.isSuccess) throw new Exception("could not login"); ReadResponse response = null; RecordRef recordRef = new RecordRef(); recordRef.internalId = "411"; recordRef.type = RecordType.customer; recordRef.typeSpecified = true; response = service.get(recordRef); if (response.status.isSuccess) { Customer c = response.record as Customer; //c.contactList is null } 0