This site was built to compliment the existing NetSuite Professionals Slack Community by adding a means for members to easily find answers to common questions and to create a searchable database of those questions and answers.

NetSuite Professionals

Is it possible to edit employee groups using suitescript?  for example add or remove members from a group?  I know the URL to call to add/remove people but that seems pretty hacky.

never done it but this suggests you can...
<https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/srbrowser/Browser2024_2/script/record/entitygroup.html>

I just tried to add employees to a group via the console using both standard and dynamic modes, but was unsuccessful because the `groupmembers` sublist is static.

I was able to load the group record just fine

That doesn't necessarily mean I exhausted all the options, or even did what I was trying correctly, but yeah it does look that way :slightly_smiling_face:

I mean, jen isn't a noob I assume she tried all the obvious things, she has a pretty good track record of asking questions that leave me scratching my head which doesn't really happen that often but jen has like an 80% hit rate :joy:

this was one of my boring questions, sorry

for reference, you can attach people by just calling this URL  /app/crm/common/crmgroup.nl?savedsearch=-1&grouptype=Employee&dynamic=F&issalesrep=F&continue=Continue&islist=T&e=T&_action=ATTACH&id=<id_of_group>&member=><id_of_group_member_1>%05<id_of_group_member_2>%05<id_of_group_member_3>

Ah the classic `\x05` separator. Haven't had to deal with that in quite a while

yeah, I’ve had to delve into that to deal with splitting up the string of ‘Item Options’ on an item line before, it’s somewhat familiar territory.

```addContactsToGroup(datain) {
                const groupId = datain.data.groupId;
                const contacts = datain.data.contacts;
                if(contacts &amp;&amp; contacts.length &gt; 0) {
                    contacts.forEach(contactId =&gt; {
                        record.attach({
                            record: {
                                type: 'contact',
                                id: contactId
                            },
                            to: {
                                type: 'entitygroup',
                                id: groupId
                            }
                        });
                    })
                }
            }```

^ Wouldn't have thought to do this via record attachments

I would have never guessed record attachments work for this.

they work for random stuff, I’ve used them for adding contacts to vendors before

Would be lovely to have this relationship (sublist vs attachment) identified in the records browser

Would be lovely to have 5 million dollars magically appear in my living room.

Cool, using record.attach and record.detach I think I’ll be able to achieve my end goal which is to be able to control what groups an Employee is in from their Employee record page.

<https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/netsuite/ns-online-help/section_3898745006.html#bridgehead_3956748901|NetSuite Applications Suite - Group>