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amount sum returning as empty string
I am trying to return a sum of invoice amounts for year to date and all I am getting returned is an empty string. I have tried three ways with both 'total' and 'amount' and just get an empty string value. The same search built in the UI returns a totaled currency value. Here is my code so far:
// ====================================================================================== // Y T D var ytdfilters = []; ytdfilters[0] = new nlobjSearchFilter('type', null, 'is', 'Invoice'); ytdfilters[1] = new nlobjSearchFilter('salesrep', null, 'is', salesrepid); ytdfilters[2] = new nlobjSearchFilter('trandate', null, 'within', 'thisfiscalyeartodate'); ytdfilters[3] = new nlobjSearchFilter('department', null,'is', 5); ytdfilters[4] = new nlobjSearchFilter('custbody_order_type', null, 'anyof', [1,3,4]/*['Add On', 'New', 'Upgrade']*/); var ytdcolumns = []; ytdcolumns[0] = new nlobjSearchColumn('formulacurrency', null, 'sum'); ytdcolumns[0].setFormula('{amount}').setLabel('ytdsum'); ytdcolumns[1] = new nlobjSearchColumn('total', null, 'sum'); ytdcolumns[3] = new nlobjSearchColumn('total', null, 'sum'); var ytdsearchresults = nlapiSearchRecord('transaction', null, ytdfilters, ytdcolumns); if (ytdsearchresults){ var ytdsearchresult = ytdsearchresults[0]; var ytd2 = ytdsearchresults[0].getValue('total', null, 'sum'); var ytd3 = ytdsearchresults[0].getValue('amount', null, 'sum'); var ytdcolumn = null; 0