This site was built to compliment the existing NetSuite Professionals Slack Community by adding a means for members to easily find answers to common questions and to create a searchable database of those questions and answers.

NetSuite Professionals

I am trying to avoid having to populate the dropdown list for every record

your description is not good enough to tell what you are doing

it sounds like you are trying to fill in select options for a field

I think what he means is that he is trying to populate a field based on a drop down. When the search is empty he gets an error.

wouldnt the solution be not to add it as a select option if its falsy?

the field is blank but the script is throwing the error TypeError: Cannot read property "value" from undefined

sure.  here is the code that looks up the field:   allocrule = search.lookupFields({type: search.Type.ITEM,id: itemid,  columns: ['custitem_pi_allocationrule'] });

instead of `result.value` put `result?.value`.  value would then be undefined. You must use suitescript 2.1

`result` is whatever undefined variable is giving you an error.

whatever is using it is naively using it without checking if its actually a value

how would I check for this?  this is the line throwing an error:   log.debug({details:"allocrule2 = " + allocrule});
                allocvalue = allocrule.custitem_pi_allocationrule[0].value;

is there a way to check if the search returned a value or else do something else if its blank?

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/if...else|if...else>

there we go. use `allocvalue = allocrule.custitem_pi_allocationrule[0]?.value;` with the question mark then use `if(!allocvalue)`

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Optional_chaining|yes>

thanks.  its too bad they did not add it until 2.1

I don't know any other JavaScript...
I started in May 2021