All, when getting the value of a multiselect field...
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darrenhillconsulting
06/04/2020, 4:07 PMAll, when getting the value of a multiselect field (in the post) of a Suitelet, the comma is represented by
\u0005s
stalbert
06/04/2020, 4:44 PMmy first reaction would be - use a SPA instead. realizing that may not be exciting to you, have you considered just parsing it by that unicode character directly rather than transforming it to be commas? Even so, can you shed light on how it's not 100% reliable?
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darrenhillconsulting
06/04/2020, 4:54 PMSPA?
darrenhillconsulting
06/04/2020, 4:55 PMWe'll, for the reliable piece ... we test our SuiteApps in several accounts (QA/DEV) x OneWorld, NonOneWorld. Out of the 6 accounts we test on, only one shows this error
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Sean Murphy
06/04/2020, 4:55 PMWhat is the error?
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darrenhillconsulting
06/04/2020, 4:57 PMYou have entered an Invalid Field Value 4\u00057\u00053 for the following field
darrenhillconsulting
06/04/2020, 4:58 PMWhat's most frustrating is ... the is what I'm setting the field to ["4","7","3"]
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stalbert
06/04/2020, 5:12 PMby SPA I mean a single page app. I think NetSuite's UI building functionality is technically lame. In this case I'd consider a small app built with your framework of choice (or no framework) using traditional web tech. In which case NS just becomes a data backend, and you can send that multiselect as a standard json array of values [4,7,3] without any funky conversion at all.
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JohnnyC
06/04/2020, 5:40 PM@stalbert with you on SPA. Wonder how this technique is viewed under the “Built for Netsuite” program
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stalbert
06/04/2020, 5:41 PMThere are BFN apps that iframe in stuff from their own web servers
stalbert
06/04/2020, 5:41 PMwhat I'm talking about typically is hosted in the NS file cabinet, so it's 'closer' to NS than those other solutions that seem to be approved.
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erictgrubaugh
06/04/2020, 5:41 PMThe solution to parsing a string is a SPA?
erictgrubaugh
06/04/2020, 5:42 PMFor multiselect I generally do
multiselectValue.split("\x05")s
stalbert
06/04/2020, 5:42 PMThe solution to avoiding the entire headache of UI Suitelets
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battk
06/04/2020, 5:52 PMCheck to see if the options are valid: https://netsuiteprofessionals.slack.com/archives/C29HQS63G/p1590982947074700?thread_ts=1590982947.074700&cid=C29HQS63G
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Sean Murphy
06/05/2020, 1:31 PMThis may sound like an overly simple answer but try using single quotes rather then double ?
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