I may have to log a case but has anyone dealt w/ user notes on a customer and had the issue where note type comes back as the text and not the ID? I have a search that gets notes of a certain type using the note type ID which works fine. When i get the note type ID (getValue) in the results, it always comes back as the text. I also tried a non-stored formula field {notetype.id} which works fine in the UI but when that value is retrieved via search, it also comes back as text. This is so weird.

Maybe try SuiteQL instead?

This is clearly a Netsuite bug but I don't want to deal w/ support. I'm gonna run 2 searches instead and just get around it. Not ideal but the search only occurs on pageInit so with how slow netsuite is anyways its not noticeable.

you might recover all the perf hit if those were 2 SuiteQL searches instead of N/search 🙂