has anyone built or stumbled upon a solution to retrieve a list of custom field (body, column, etc.) descriptions without having to export the objects to SDF & parse out?

you can use SuiteQL, there are tables for custom records, fields etc

thanks!

@mbrewer There are some queries in this post that might help: https://timdietrich.me/blog/netsuite-suiteql-custom-record-types-and-custom-fields/