How does one use a multiselect from the form of se...
# suitescripta
Azi
04/01/2022, 1:26 PMHow does one use a multiselect from the form of serverWidget of a suitelet and access that data in the post?
I have no idea how they expect this data to be parsed.
When I log the data it looks like this
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battk
04/01/2022, 1:30 PMnetsuite internally uses
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04/01/2022, 1:30 PMyou have to split the string yourself
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Azi
04/01/2022, 2:05 PMThank you so much! I spent hours trying to come up with a solution!
How did you know that?
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battk
04/01/2022, 2:07 PMuse String.prototype.charCodeAt to figure out what the delimiter is
battk
04/01/2022, 2:08 PMonce you know what it is, you could do a search in help to find a few examples of netsuite splitting multi selects like that
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mattdahse
04/01/2022, 2:21 PMThis behavior is legitimately ridiculous.
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Azi
04/01/2022, 2:23 PMThanks for your help @battk.
Thanks for the validation @mattdahse
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ec
04/01/2022, 4:25 PMFYI, though, if you are just reading in the value of the multiselect and setting the value of a multi select field in the backend/record, you don’t need to parse at all
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Azi
04/01/2022, 6:44 PMI was getting list of employees in the GET and emailing it those recipients in the POST