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Client is using a custom role for our integration. He's getting this error when my script is using `nlapiLookupField()`. We're having trouble finding the permission he needs to enable.
```nlapiLookupField('contact', recordId, 'parent.internalid');```
&gt; YOUR_SEARCH_CONTAINS_A_REFERENCE_TO_JOIN_FOR_WHICH_YOU_DO_NOT_HAVE_A_PERMISSION: Your search contains a reference to join for which you do not have a permission: Company

You have to load the record and then read the value lookup not allowed you to read parent directly

It works fine with the Administrator role

So it must be a permission issue, wouldn't you think?

Normally every one run the script on administration. Assuming that I suggest

Yeah, he wants to restrict what our integration has access to

Figured it out. He made a new custom role without telling me, and he forgot to set that new role on the RESTlet.

The integration was still using the old role.