How can I reproduce NetSuite’s native progress tracking (percentage) for a Map/Reduce script? In the standard NetSuite UI (e.g., when creating transactions in batch), the progress of background tasks is shown as a percentage that updates in real-time. I’d like to replicate this behavior for a custom Map/Reduce process — ideally showing the live progress percentage in a Suitelet. So far, I’ve tried using getPercentageComplete() in the Map/Reduce, but it seems to only return 0% or 100%. I’ve also looked into caching or custom records to track the execution progress manually. Question: What’s the best practice to implement this kind of real-time progress feedback? Is there a recommended way to track and display the actual progress percentage of a running Map/Reduce, like NetSuite does internally?

The API for retrieving/setting the percent complete value is just through the property

runtime.getCurrentScript().percentComplete

, not through a

getPercentComplete()

method. I'm not sure if this API applies in a Map/Reduce. How would you handle all the race conditions across concurrent processors during the

map

and

reduce

stages?

Het Eric thanks but how does netsuite manage the progress of scripts on standard pages (mainly running MRs)?

I can't answer how NetSuite does it internally

I find this article https://github.com/jeffreymkabot/netsuite-task-status