Will nlapiSubmitField trigger user event scripts?

They do normally fire the beforeSumit and afterSubmit, but not beforeLoad. Type is "xedit"

My question was just about nlapiSubmitField

If the field is INLINE or HIDDEN I think nlapiSubmitField uses nlapiLoadRecord / nlapiSetFieldValue / nlapiSubmitRecord - so this may cause a "normal" user event chain

Interesting

My reasoning for mentioning the "nlapiGetFieldValue" is that this can return NULL when used in User Events that are trigger via nlapiSubmitField - caught us out a few times before 🙂 The user event receives a "trimmed down" version of the record so seems much more efficient - a bit like when using inline-editing on search views

there is a very long topic on inline editing and suitescript