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I need to place an externalid on a custom record within a 2.0 script.  When I build the externalid and do a setValue on the record, everything appears to work however, after the record is saved, the externalid is missing.  I have tried setting the value with a client script and a user event script; same results.  Anyone have thoughts on how this might work?

record.submitFields({
					type : 'custrecord_abc',
					id : 4,
					values: {
						externalid: 'aa'
				    },
				    options: {
				        enableSourcing: false,
				        ignoreMandatoryFields : true
				    }

				});

Thanks for the response.  Looks like that would work but I am attempting to build the externalid on new records as they are created and am having trouble acquiring an internalid, required by the record.submitFields function, according to Help.