What is the proper way to trigger a suitelet to load a saved search with modified filters? The dropdowns have too many records it's difficult to find statuses to filter with

I am a little fuzzy on what you're trying to do, but when you have the search object, you can add filters to it.

I can see an example of this from stackoverflow -- but I'm having difficulty actually putting it to use. Can I ask you for a little clarification maybe it will be immediately obvious

Grab the user guide from Help>User Guides > SuiteScript 2.0 API -- there's a good description of each object/function.

I took some suitescript code, created a record -- when trying to upload, got an error that its suitescript 2 and needs the scripttype. I am not sure what type to even utilize this sort of script as

there's quite a bit to unpack here.

Understood, my apologies

unfortunately, NetSuite doesn't provide the ability to simply filter an 'Available search Filter' which is what it sounds like you're wanting to do.

Yeah 😞 I am looking for a work around as it's a bit clunky when the filter dropdowns have so many useless things to filter to

Depending on the number of results in your search (as well) this is quite an undertaking for a first Suitelet..

I've created a lot of usereventscripts for transforms, I'm not quite at step 0 - I just dont understand whats the best way to address

The best advice I can give you is to download Matt's book on the subject of SuiteScript 2.0 Development.. he lays it out really well. https://leanpub.com/netsuitedevelopment

Yes Kevin the best way is with a Suitelet using the N/search module to get the data, and the

N/ui/serverWidget

module to add the fields. Your main problem is there isnt a native way to filter the results in your sublist with Netsuite APIs. This is very doable if you deploy a client script to your page and hide lines with jQuery, but you've gone pretty far outside the normal scope of a suitelet for a task that probably will not bring much value.

Thanks for the clarity Sandii, I understand that this is not an ideal way to do it outside of an exercise to learn a lot about suitescript. I was advised by somebody to create a saved search that returns the live status columns, and set it as a source to a field on transaction, then filter off of that... which seems not ideal but easier at least

Yeah it's such a janky workaround for a basic need but that accomplish what you need in a much simpler manner.