so google doesn't have a relatively recent answer for this. If I want to store custom parameters accessible to every SuiteScript (like the default employee account to use for system generated email notifications), search results say it's either a static JSON object in the File Cabinet, or a single Custom Record with all your options. Custom Record would let privileged users at least change values when they want. Is there a any other better way the more experienced would recommend?

I think you can set global script parameters in the company settings.

lots of options here so depends on your use case global params in company settings N/cache module and the previously mentioned singleton custom record and JSON file in FC

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they all have their pros and cons i guess

from my searching, Company Paramters look like they can only be set from a Suite Bundle, which we're not there yet

i generally only reach for the cache module when its for a performance boosts, i.e. something I know I'm gonna be looking up 100s / 1000s of times no reason you can't do both though... make the custom record and then load the custom record once into the cache and use the cache so no additional record loads/lookups

the custom record with N/cache might not be a bad idea. Anytime that single custom record is saved, just trigger a new cache clear

...right aftersubit UEon the custom record to refresh cache

yea

so this under the help has me concerned.

Important A cached value is not guaranteed to stay in the cache for the full duration of the

ttl

value. The

ttl

value represents the maximum time that the cached value may be stored. Cached data is not persistent, so you should consider using the Cache.get(options) method with the

options.loader

parameter to set and retrieve data.

If I can't guarantee a response, then I'd be writing my own loader function to read/write values from a file anyway unless I'm missing something

right you just set the loader up once like in your cache library

I hope our account never gets to that point. clean & lean code is #2 for my work.

no really about the code so much but how aggressively you're using caches i think?

thanks for the tips

no worries, you can setup the custom record and use that initially and implement the cache later as needed

I'll probably end up doing a file method anyway instead of custom record, but I can still use N/cache from the file. Reason for file is that I want params to stay when refreshing sandbox.

No, you can create Company Parameters... But the way is funny 😁 Create a dummy script (any kind) and for that script create parameters... One option for script parameter is context, and there you can say COMPANY 😁😁😁