Hello, On a time entry, I am trying to populate the service item with the value of the billing class. The service item and billing class is a 1 to 1 relationship. Also the service item field is mandatory. I cannot get passed the mandatory field. Does anyone have any suggestions?

function beforeSubmit(scriptContext) {
    if (scriptContext.type !== scriptContext.UserEventType.CREATE &&
        scriptContext.type !== scriptContext.UserEventType.EDIT) {
        return;
    }
    var timeEntry = scriptContext.newRecord;
    var employee = timeEntry.getValue({ fieldId: 'employee'});
    if (!employee) {return}

    var employeeName = record.load({ type: record.Type.EMPLOYEE, id: employee });
    var billingClass = employeeName.getValue({ fieldId: 'billingclass'});

    timeEntry.setValue({ fieldId: 'item', value: billingClass });
}

are you saying that service items and billing classes have the same name

yes they both have the same name

the code you wrote uses internal id numbers

so use getText

i personally would recommend doing a search to get the correct internal id

my goal was to use a fieldchanged event to see when the employee field was selected, then get the billingclass and set the billing class to the service item.

client script if its for the user interface

ok i will try that