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Searching for JSON in a long text - syntax needed

edited Jan 3, 2020 1:11AM in Search / Reporting 2 comments

I have item records storing some JSON in a long text field such as:

{"PROPERTY1":{"show":true,"id":22},"PROPERTY2":{"show":false,"id":435},...

In the UI, NetSuite stores this visually as:

"{"PROPERTY1":{"show":true..."

I want to search item records to see if a specific property has it's show sub-property set to true and since I'm not searching for the object, I construct the following in a filter:

nlobjSearchFilter('custitem_myfield',null,'contains','"PROPERTY1":{"show":true')

It always returns null. I've tried escaping the quotes, using entities, etc but no combination appears to work. Is there a specific syntax for searching on text that contains quotes? If I just search for 'PROPERTY1' it returns results fine. I'm thinking the problem is not properly escaping the quotes in the string.

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