is it possible to do

portlet.addColumn('location','text', 'Location', ‘LEFT’).getText()

I’m using Lazyjs to get the search results is the thing

with NFT if you pass

true

to nsSearchResult2obj() you'll get the text values from a search as <fieldname>Text. For example call .nsSearchResult2obj(true) and you'll get

.foo

with the internal id and

.fooText

with the text value for every field in your search. HTH