Does anyone know what search.Type.SALES_ORDER is? In the UI, I don't have a saved search option of Sales Order. I would normally do a transaction search and add criteria of type = sales order. Does anyone know if this accomplishes the same thing?

SALES_ORDER is a transaction of type SalesOrder and would return those fields / joins etc specific to a sales order rather than the more general "transaction" (as viewed in the records browser)

I mean when you make a transaction search in the UI and export to script its like

search.create({
   type: "salesorder",
   filters:
   [
      ["type","anyof","SalesOrd"]
   ],
   columns:

Hmm that's interesting

Removing the filter/criteria, it yields same number of results, so I believe you can remove

type anyof SalesOrd

if you change the

type

property of the search

I'll give it a go with both search.Type.TRANSACTION with the filter of type=salesorder and also search.Type.SALES_ORDER and see if there's any differences

Probably a risky maneuver, I would probably stick with the type being

transaction

and putting the

type

criteria in personally.

If I'm searching for one specific transaction type, I always use the specific

type

option in

search.create()

(e.g.

search.Type.SALES_ORDER

) rather than the

type

filter with the more generic

search.Type.TRANSACTION

and I've never had any issues, but I'd be curious to know if anyone has anything more concrete on whether or not there's a difference between them.

I do the same ^. The various transaction subtypes are just there for convenience. They're shortcuts to a search with a

type

of

transaction

and a

type

Filter