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I'm just a little confused as to why I can't do getText. When I print the record that is returned, the text values are there and I can actually get them, but they use some other ID that NS seems to have arbitrarily set

Are you scripting in Dynamic mode? Sometimes that changes the availability of getText v getValue

to clarify, if it is beforeSubmit, i believe the record has to be saved before you can get the text value