is it possible to initiate the "start count" action on an inventorycount record, from within script. I have reviewed all the documentation, help, suitetalk api, etc., and can only find a comment from 7 years ago that suggests this is impossible, and requires an NS enhancement. something might have changed since then?

I’ve never been able to do this using script. I had to use RPA to essentially click the button automatically. It works pretty well but was quite a bit of a hack

that's what I feared, but wanted to get confirmation. thank you for your reply.