How to replicate the way an entity name appears via custom record

AI generated answer (using internal Slack threads):

To replicate the way an entity name appears via a custom record, you can use the

name

field when the "use name field" option is ticked for custom records. This field stores the "name" of each individual record. For example, in transactions, this is

tranid

, in support cases this is

casenumber

, in Contact/Customer/Vendor this is

entityid

etc. The value of this field shows in bold at the top of the record in the User Interface. However, please note that NetSuite uses the name as the entity id key for the customer record. If you have customers with the same names, you might encounter an error message saying

A customer record with this ID already exists

. To work around this, you can turn on auto numbering for the customer record, but this might result in seeing auto-generated IDs like Cust 00123 everywhere in the UI. Another workaround is to append something unique to the last name when saving the record to get the name in the entity id for UI sake and then resetting the last name. If you need to add the "entity" (customer/company) field to a custom record and have the internal ID be {entity}, it might not be possible directly. You might need to modify the script that is looking at the custom record. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******