Hello, all. I'm writing a simple Client script function to handle a button click (button injected by beforeLoad UE) on a Sales Order record. The button is firing the client function correctly. My problem is that with this custom function I don't have access to the context object (or, at least, I don't know how to get access to it) and so am trying to use N/currentRecord.get() to get the record and read the entity / Customer ID. Unfortunately, no matter how I try to read that value with currentRecord.get().getValue() or .getText(), I get nothing but undefined. Confusingly, if I read the shipdate field using currentRecord.get().getValue(), I get the value just fine. Can anyone explain why using this method to read the entity field would turn up with undefined?

define([
    'N/currentRecord',

], function (
    currentRecord,
) {
    var exports = {};

    function pageInit(context) {
        console.log("pageInit Triggered!");
    }
    exports.pageInit = pageInit;

    function handleGenerateDelivPacketButtonClick() {
        debugger;

        let rec = currentRecord.get();

        // All of the following function calls return undefined
        let recCustomerId = rec.getValue('entity');
        let recCustomerId2 = rec.getText('entity');
        let recCustomerId3 = rec.getValue({ fieldId: 'entity' });
        let recCustomerId4 = rec.getText({ fieldId: 'entity' });

        // This returns the ship date accurately (e.g. '6/28/2023')
        let recShipDate = rec.getValue('shipdate');

    }
    exports.handleGenerateDelivPacketButtonClick = handleGenerateDelivPacketButtonClick;
}

If you're adding and clicking the button from

VIEW

mode, then the

CurrentRecord

instance will not contain any field values, only its

recordtype

and

id

. You can use those values to use

N/record.load()

or

N/search.lookupFields()

to retrieve the

entity

.

Thanks, Eric. That makes enough sense to follow as a rule. However, I'm confused about why I can access the Ship Date field value at the same time that the Entity value remains inaccessible. Any thoughts?

Ah that is strange

You could test it with a

currentRecord.get().getText({fieldId: 'somefield'})

Yeah, I even tried to get at something/anything through getField(), but that didn't lead anywhere

That is super frustrating. I mean there really shouldnt be any difference between getting your date field and any other field on the record

Ah, Netsuite..