I’m working on a little util module to do some things that are repetitive tasks. For example, the snippet below to set multiple fields on a record from an object passed as a parameter. Another one I have is for issuing queries for datasets larger than 5000 records. Just wondering - has anyone else made or used any util/helper libraries to abstract away some of the more tedious suitescript functions?

const setValues = (target_record, field_obj)=>{
    Object.entries(field_obj).forEach(([key,value])=>{
        target_record.setValue({
            fieldId: key,
            value: value
        })
    })
}

That function could fail too depending on the inputs for certain fields like dates

It works as long as the object passed is a javascript date object, but yeah if you just pass the string in it will throw an error

Yep. Just something to look at as someone who has run into this one before 😄. I recently created a library that lets you build custom suitelets using an object rather than code. You just describe the suitelet as a json object and it outputs the suitelet form.

Nice that sounds interesting!

So no code to create this UI. Just the JSON object and the render method I have.

I tend to shy away from generalized functions like that

setValues()

unless there's a strong use case. In my experience a simple set of assignments is more clear and easier to maintain and customize. That said, I do use NFT so those assignments are literally

target.fieldname = input.someinputname

(which just in that one line represents s common divergence that would confound setValues()- the source object field name may differ from the target NS name)

You could maybe build the form builder I have into NFT if you don't have anything like that. Its honestly been pretty useful.

I went the same route @creece but instead of using a JSON object to build the suitelet, I used a custom record.

We've tried to keep NFT focused on lower level general constructs but form-builder is definitely an idea for higher level reuse. To that end I could see a version of your form builder using NFT to help with record manipulation code. 🙂

@Eric B How is the custom record stuff working out? Is it just to let end users try to manage the suitelet construction? Mine was targeted at a developer.

Yes @creece the goal was to allow an advanced user to be able to spin up a suitelet with half the work done in terms of code.

Nice, that seems like it'd go well with my stuff as another option. Nicely done

The data can also be CSV imported into the custom record.