Hey Guys, guess I need some support :) I added a Button in a UserEventScript to our Sales Order and tried to get the Text for example the Shipping State but it don’t works at all i always got the message “Cannot read property ‘newRecord’ of undefined” Guess the problem Is, that the button is created in the beforeLoad function ? Here is my example:  UserEventScript.js to Add the Button:

define(['N/currentRecord', 'N/record'], function(currentRecord, record){

    var exports= {};

    function beforeLoad(scriptContext) {

      scriptContext.form.addButton({
          id:"custpage.button",
            label:"Press Me",
            functionName:"myMail"
          }
        )
       // path to Button function:
      scriptContext.form.clientScriptModulePath="SuiteScripts/mybuttonfunc.js";

    }


    exports.beforeLoad = beforeLoad;
    return {exports};

  });

ClientScript.js :

define(['N/record'], function(record) {

  var exports = {};

  function pageInit() {}

  function myMail(scriptContext){
    var shippingS = scriptContext.newRecord.getText({fieldId: 'shipstatus'})
  // var shippingS = scriptContext.newRecord.getValue({fieldId: 'shipstatus'});
  }

  exports.pageInit = pageInit;
  exports.myMail = myMail;
  return exports;

});

Buttons dont get a scriptContext

scriptContext

Tomas can say the rest

I think you need to load the module N/currentRecord and then run let rec = currentRecord.get() to get the current record. then run rec.getValue...

ok thy ill give it a try! the button only shows up in viewmode

ok, then I think you need to use search.lookupFields();

you can also get the fields in the beforeLoad, and pass them in as parameters

@battk I used to do that with some regularity but I believe it's not actually documented anywhere that passing parameters in

functionName

works. Do you know otherwise and/or do you see it as fairly low-risk undocumented code? It definitely feels like a better solution to me (better for performance, if nothing else) than constantly using

currentRecord.get()

in client functions.

I've really struggled to get buttons from UE scripts to do anything useful. I tried to set a check box to true and nothing would happen, very frustrating, I always just end up going back to workflow button and then workflow action script, but would be very interested in what you find

@b if the button is pressed in a view-context, you need to refresh the page to see the new value... or hack/update the html.

You can also just write your whole function inline into the button like

`(function myMail(){
//add all your stuff here
})()`

If using 2.1, the tick string notation makes this much easier to read

I would refresh the page, wouldn't work, would love to see a working example

@b Are you using

N/currentRecord

to set values in view? If so, that's probably the issue - you'll need to use

N/record

to submitFields or a combination of load/setValue/save instead.

Yes, here is what my function had:

@b Huh, I don't immediately see any issues in there (assuming

custbody_gvo_rerelease

is a checkbox field that stores value and that

currentRecord

and

r

are the

N/currentRecord

and

N/record

modules). It's not throwing an error, right? Have you tried putting a

console.log

or

alert

in there to make sure the function is getting triggered at all?

I just created a workflow button and workflow action script, everytime I try it justs ends up being a big headache and time suck

record.submitFields() should be faster since you have no real reason to be loading the record. Also, clicking a button to set a single field value and reload the page seems like strange use case to me, why not just open the record in EDIT mode in the first place and click the checkbox?

@MTNathan i see it as low risk. the functionName is essentially implemented in the onclick of the button. Thats basically eval, you can do whatever you want

window.nlapiGetFieldText('shipstatus'); window.nlapiGetFieldValue('shipstatus'); save code lines