Does anyone have any experience using SOAP web services with NetSuite? The documentation is not super helpful. Specifically, I'm using the soap package from NPM. https://www.npmjs.com/package/soap

you probably want to lead with what part you need help on

I guess examples would be helpful. I have a query for posting periods that was working fine previously, but after adding additional subsidiaries on both the employee record and role I am using it now says that I must "provide a value for field subsidiary". I have tried adding it in a few places, but to no avail.

its pretty unfriendly on generating a helpful client

Yeah, and the NetSuite documentation isn't super helpful in this area.

generally help is doing a get operation on an existing record

I'm trying to do

getSelectValueAsync

, but my request is failing because I'm not providing the subsidiary. I just confirmed that it works fine without the subsidiary if I set my Employee record subsidiary back to what it was originally. I don't know why I'm expected to provide it now. The Posting Periods on the NetSuite site don't appear to be tied to a specific subsidiary.

a getSelectValue's fieldDescription element has a filterByValueList element that you need to fill in whenever netsuite would do sourcing/filtering

I'm not entirely sure that I follow that. My SOAP body that isn't working right now looks like this:

<soap:Body>
        <platformMsgs:getSelectValue xmlns:platformMsgs="urn:messages_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com"
                                     xmlns="urn:messages_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
            <platformMsgs:fieldDescription>
                <platformCore:recordType xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
                    invoice
                </platformCore:recordType>
                <platformCore:field xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
                    postingPeriod
                </platformCore:field>
                <platformCore:subsidiary internalId="39"
                                         xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
                    <platformCore:name>Velocity</platformCore:name>
                </platformCore:subsidiary>
            </platformMsgs:fieldDescription>
            <platformMsgs:pageIndex>0</platformMsgs:pageIndex>
        </platformMsgs:getSelectValue>
    </soap:Body>

you are adding a subsidiary element to the fieldDescription

Okay, I think I'm following now. I don't know how there can be a subsidiary field when I can't see one in the UI or NetSuite Field Explorer, but I think this is how the SOAP request should look?

<soap:Body>
        <platformMsgs:getSelectValue xmlns:platformMsgs="urn:messages_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com"
                                     xmlns="urn:messages_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
            <platformMsgs:fieldDescription>
                <platformCore:recordType xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
                    invoice
                </platformCore:recordType>
                <platformCore:field xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
                    postingPeriod
                </platformCore:field>
                <platformCore:filterByValueList xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_2.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
                    <platformCore:filterBy>
                        <platformCore:field>subsidiary</platformCore:field>
                        <platformCore:internalId>19</platformCore:internalId>
                    </platformCore:filterBy>
                </platformCore:filterByValueList>
            </platformMsgs:fieldDescription>
            <platformMsgs:pageIndex>0</platformMsgs:pageIndex>
        </platformMsgs:getSelectValue>
    </soap:Body>

you are getting the select options for the posting period on an invoice

That makes much more sense now.

its the sourcing thing, different options are available to different subsidiaries

Because the way our code works now, we get this list first, and then use that list to set the actual posting period for each invoice we're sending to NS.

Okay, I'll look into trying that search instead. I ran into another problem though. The search for subsidiary

19

works fine now, but another subsidiary,

39

, that I have set on my Role and Employee record that I have access to is returning

Permission Violation: The restrictions on your role deny you access to this record.

same rules as the ui

Unfortunately I don't know what's selectable because this a new subsidiary we just added, so the only customers using it are ones we've created for testing. I haven't created an invoice yet and I honestly don't know how to manually. We typically just sync data from our proprietary system to do that.

learn how to make an invoice

Good idea. Thank you for all your help. I think a lot of this is really starting to click for me now.