I am working with a NetSuite instance that has a lot of unused custom body fields. We deleted somewhere between 30-40 of those fields then experienced 1-2 hours of not being able to open sale orders in edit mode. Anyone have any insight into why we would have experience it?

Perhaps a client script

pageInit

method that uses one of those fields?

That was our thought, but we didn't get any suitescript errors. If anything we got timeout errors

Did you remove them from the form or did you delete them entirely?

Delete entirely

Perhaps a workflow?

Functionality returned without any known changes

ya it’s not a WF…NS just flat out won’t LET you delete fields that are in a WF….maybe it was just cleanup time - ie the Oracle database roomba needed a few hours to go through all transactions and scrub fields….100% just a guess. I’m not a database guy by any stretch, but I’ve seen weird stuff like this before. Was it ONLY Sales Orders? And were any of the fields you nuked on OTHER transaction types that weren’t affected?