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standard technique is what <@U29PVMVAR> told you to do. Do an item search for an item with a matching internal id. get the record type from the search result

more advanced technique is to create another field that uses sourcing to source the item type onto a field on the custom record

I’m calling that search but can’t see how to get the type

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the search result object stores the actual recordType you are looking for in the recordType key

Every non-summarized `N/search.Result` instance has an `id` and `recordType` property

```var itemSearchObj = search.create({
   type: "item",
   filters:
   [
      ["internalidnumber","equalto","12345"]
   ],
   columns:[]
});
itemSearchObj.run().each(function(result){
   log.debug('Item Type', result.recordType)
   return true;
});```

thanks for that - is it best to do my record.load in that callback or can I return the record type from the callback to the caller?

not sure how you mean to return the recordType. But the  each function is not asynchronous. If you store the recordType in a variable whose scope is outside the callback, its value will be accessible outside of the each callback.