I was reading through the SAFE guide and came acro...
# suitescripte
eblackey
08/12/2025, 9:13 PMI was reading through the SAFE guide and came across this section on resaving a record in afterSubmit. This seems obvious, but the one place we do this - setting a record externalid value - doesn't seem to have a good workaround so I'm curious what others do.
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Edgar Valdes
08/12/2025, 9:28 PMAlso interested, I send the second save operation to a scheduled script
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Anthony OConnor
08/12/2025, 9:39 PMare you not able to set an external id in beforeSubmit?
Anthony OConnor
08/12/2025, 9:47 PMI was able to set this on record create before doing my save action, so I'm curious why you'd need to always set extids in afterSubmit?
Anthony OConnor
08/12/2025, 9:48 PMare you setting the extid to equal something which CONTRAINS the internal id? that I could understand you woudnt have the internal id until aftersubmit
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creece
08/13/2025, 6:32 AMThere are valid reasons to do a submitFields or save on an afterSubmit so I wouldn't 100% agree with the SAFE guide
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eblackey
08/13/2025, 1:08 PM@Anthony OConnor From what I can tell, you can set the externalid on create if you're calling a record.create() in SuiteScript. But if you're creating a record through the UI and trying to set the externalid on the beforeSubmit() of that record it will not work.
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Anthony OConnor
08/13/2025, 2:19 PMI mean its a guide anyway not a law - its a best practice to avoid that, but if you can't, you can't
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Zoran R-DATAGRAM
08/26/2025, 12:46 PMNo problem if after submit script is post processing with no MUST DO IT. Your transaction will be saved even after submit throw an error
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