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What happens if you load/submit a record in a beforeSubmit script?

edited Dec 2, 2019 5:48PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 4 comments

Hi all,

I have a Before Submit user event script that runs on Item records.
This script updates the defaultreturncost field on the location sublist with the value from the body field cost:

 function onBeforeSubmit(event_type)  {    if(event_type == 'create' || event_type == 'edit' || event_type == 'xedit')    {      var item = nlapiGetNewRecord();      var cost = item.getFieldValue('cost');      for(var x = 1; x <= item.getLineItemCount('locations'); x++)      {        item.setLineItemValue('locations', 'defaultreturncost', x, cost);      }    }  } 


Unfortunately, this does not work when triggered by an inline edit (event_type == xedit).
Calling "item.getLineItemCount('locations')" returns -1 instead of the true line item count.

I assume this is due to the fact that

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