Hey Everyone, Over the next two months, I'm dedic...
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Hey Everyone, Over the next two months, I'm dedicating time to work on a SuiteApp project so that I can learn as much as possible and contribute to the broader community with the knowledge and insights gained during this project. Goals and Objectives: 1. Comprehensive Platform Coverage: Create a SuiteApp that touches various areas of the platform, enabling me to gain insights and provide value to different teams. This project will offer maximum exposure to diverse development techniques. 2. Learning Through Challenges: Experience the learning curve and challenges firsthand, as this will allow me to identify gaps and areas where tutorials, guides, and blogs can be of great help to other developers. 3. Enhancing Development Techniques: Further improve my SuiteScript skills and gain exposure to a wide range of development techniques. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for a SuiteApp project that I could work on? What helped you with your learning journey? What roadblocks are you currently experiencing that you would like me to show in the SuiteApp?
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I'm confused. Are you at NetSuite and wanting to create a suiteapp in order to immerse yourself into the space to get a better understanding of the current eco system from our perspective?
If you aren't wanting to spend an inordinate amount of time I'd recommend something light that helps with common workflow issues. I have a bulk deletion SuiteApp and benchmarking bundle (not an app but relevant) for example that fit into that vein. Very small scope and very concise but help immensely in some gaps NetSuite has. You won't be able to match the scope of avalara. I think there are gaps in bulk file attachment capabilities NetSuite has which sounds lame but could save people 100s of hours
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I’ll pm you @Mohammed Kassem
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@The Usual Suspect Thanks for sharing your insights on bulk files. Great suggestion. My personal goal is to learn common developer pain points in various parts of NS and share my experience with the community!
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I'd recommend finding a better distribution technique for SDF. Currently there is the SACC which is amazing but only available to Certified SuiteApps. We need a bundle equivalent for SDF. Thats my biggest pain point.
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@Mohammed Kassem You know you can always contact me. I have delt with those hurdles myself and would be happy to point you in the direction of known failure. 😆 My issue of the sch/m/r deployment times would still be number one on my list of things to fix. You can't have a truly global app if your scripts aren't running at the right time. Another suggestion, split your installation script into multiple parts, do something before the objects load and then do something else after. Dealing with account specific values is always a challenge. I had to learn how to avoid that situation and how to fix certain road blocks. Including various forms and what they tend to do with the manifest's dependencies is another challenge. I could go on but feel free to DM me.
@The Usual Suspect We use CI/CD pipelines with our Bitbucket repo for distribution. There are challenges to that but doable.
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CI/CD?