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Hi All.

Using workflows, is there a way we can use a change in field from child record to create a change in a parent record field?
I am unaware of scripts, and all the developers are already super busy. So, needed to implement this if feasible.

You could as a scheduled workflow. Have a search of parent records which shows the changes of the child record. Then this would be the input search for your Workflow.

If you will be doing more with Netsuite, i suggest asking Devs for a more generic approach where you can have searches of a certain format as an input search which will allow you to nominate which columns will update which record. Then you don't have to get a dev for every 'update' requirement.

We developed a utility for exactly this. Once installed it can be utilized in any workflow on any record to set values on joined records

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