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I have a custom record “ABC” which has some child records “DEF”.   The ABC is being created, along with its DEFs, in a Suitelet.   Is there a way in server-side SuiteScript to add the child records to the ABC all at the initial save (e.g. add them to the sublist prior to saving the ABC and just do one save)?  Currently, I’m saving the ABC then one-by-one creating and saving the DEFs but I need to trigger a WF on create of the ABC that relies on the data from the DEFs.

<https://system.netsuite.com/app/help/helpcenter.nl?fid=section_1506017984.html|Custom Child Record Sublist Creation with SuiteScript>

though you wont get workflows or user event triggered on that

that link has very little info on scripting

seems to all be UI except for an example of getting a sublist value

<https://netsuite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46388|SuiteApp Architectural Fundamentals &amp; Examples> 2.3.4 Using Parent-Child Relationships to Perform Mass Create/Update

basically setup the parent/child relationship so that its an editable sublist

which allows you to create the child records from the parent record by adding rows to the sublist