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Advanced PDF / HTML Template - Boolean vs Text Comparisons
I encountered many instances where I have a field in Production and the same field in the Sandbox, and I try running a comparision in Freemarker for the value stored in the field, but for some reason I am getting different responses in each environment.
The funny thing is the following: I understand that there could be some sort of change to the way the system reads in custom fields, but this is happening with core, built-in Netsuite fields as well.
For example, with checkbox fields, I attempted to run formulas such as:
<#if CUSTOMFIELDHERE
I received some sort of error when attempting this check, so I modified it to:
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