Does anyone have a work around for being unable to use custom multi-select fields as an available filter on saved searches? NetSuite has it as an enhancement, but I'm sure it won't be available any time soon

Not as a filter.

I was able to get the criteria to work, but I really wanted them to be able to select via filter. I think the workaround I found that could work in this instance is a report instead of a saved search

you can use a formula text field in the criteria with the custom field selected and the criteria set to % (wildcard). The put the formula text on the available filters. They will have type in the value they want to filter on. But it works. The filter will only see the first formula in the criteria to filter with. So be careful with how many formulas you are using as criteria.

thanks - i'll give that a try too

It'll also give partial matches with that method

@KevinJ of Kansas would that work for the last value in the multi-select that doesn't have a comma after? "Value 1, Value 2, *Value 3*"

which is why I suggested using a formula of

{field}||','

to force a comma at the end

I think I'm going to stick with the report method for now since the users aren't as sophisticated using the system yet (new implementation)

Ah missed that part.