What is the best way to execute a suitescript when...
# suitescripts
Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:29 PMWhat is the best way to execute a suitescript when a new sales order has been created? It needs to execute whether that sales order was created manually, through a soap call, through a restlet or scheduled script. Basically ANY time that a new sales order is created. Thanks
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battk
05/14/2021, 1:32 PMthe usual answer is a user event script
battk
05/14/2021, 1:33 PMif you really mean anytime, like a sales order created in another workflow or userevent script, then you want a map/reduce or scheduled script
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Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:35 PMI read that user events only trigger on 3 points, load, before submit, after submit. None of which would actually kick off specifically for record creation.
Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:36 PMI am not familiar with map/reduce. How would a scheduled script operate? check for new records since the last run?
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battk
05/14/2021, 1:39 PMYou can filter the event type that a script runs on from the deployment via Setting Script Execution *Event *Type from the UI
battk
05/14/2021, 1:39 PMits primitive enough that its usually done in the script itself
battk
05/14/2021, 1:40 PMmap/reduce or scheduled scripts would run on a schedule and usually perform logic on the results of a search
battk
05/14/2021, 1:40 PMthere are many ways you can make the records show up in a search, the most basic being a checkbox on the sales order
battk
05/14/2021, 1:40 PMwhich you check after doing your processing
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Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:44 PMSo if a user event script can run on create for a salesorder record type, is there a reason you would use a scheduled script instead?
Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:45 PMwould user event not fire if the so creation was by another script or through SOAP
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battk
05/14/2021, 1:45 PMHow User Events are Executed notes important limitations about user event execution
battk
05/14/2021, 1:47 PMSuiteScript 2.x User Event Script Best Practices lists some limitations as well
battk
05/14/2021, 1:47 PMin general, read the documentation for user event scripts
battk
05/14/2021, 1:47 PMpay extra attention to anything performance related or error related
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Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:48 PMyes. it says that you can execute a user event script from a scheduled script but it does not indicate if it would fire or not fire automatically if a scheduled script created a sales order.
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battk
05/14/2021, 1:49 PMsoap requests control if scripts run via the runServerSuiteScriptAndWorkflowTriggers preference
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Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:49 PMto make sure that I get everything I think I will need to do a scheduled script with a flag to mark processed.
Scot Sunnergren
05/14/2021, 1:49 PMthank you
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battk
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