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I have a restlet trying to update a custom field on an employee record - the code is literally:

`const employee = record.load({ type: Types.EMPLOYEE, id: employeeId });`
`employee.setValue({ fieldId: 'custrecord_our_field_id', value: 21 });` 
`employee.save();`

The script throws - “TypeError: Cannot read property \“length\” from null (NLRecordScripting.scriptInit$lib#770)”

Anyone, any ideas?

I’ve tried different employees, different fields - it seems I cannot update an employee?!?!

Check if your restlet is not trigerring other UE scripts deployed on the employee

Thanks for the reply - I’ve “undeployed” all the UE scripts against the employee record type (Customisation &gt; Scripted Records - and unticked the “Deployed” box) - but the error persists …. :anguished:

Share the entire script, might be something in the define

```/**

* @NApiVersion 2.1

* @NScriptType restlet

*/

define(['N/log', 'N/record'], (log, record) =&gt; {
    function post(data) {
      try {
        const { owner } = data;
        const employee = updateEmployeeRecord(owner, 1);
        return JSON.stringify({ success, error: null, employee });
      }

      catch (ex) {
        log.error('testEmployee - error', ex);
        return JSON.stringify({ success: false, error: ex.message });
      }
    }
  
    function updateEmployeeRecord(owner) {
      const employeeRecord = record.load({ type: record.Type.EMPLOYEE, id: owner });
      employeeRecord.setValue({ fieldId: 'firstname', value: 'Damien1' });
      employeeRecord.save();
      return employeeRecord;
    }

    return {
      post
    };
  });```

`owner` probably does not contain what you think it does. You're passing the object directly to `record.load()`. You'll almost certainly want to specifiy `owner.id` or similar. Add a `log.debug(JSON.stringify(data));` at the top of your post function so you can see what you're actually receiving

I’m trying this from Postman - data is passed as:

`{ "owner": "12345" }`

you want `owner.owner` then ? unless i'm misunderstanding

Also I assume if owner was null the error would point to that - I can retrieve the record and log it out - I just cant update it

no `const { owner } = data;`=== `const owner = data.owner;`

outside the reference error you get since success is not defined, your code looks fine

probably want to double check the scripts and workflows deployed to employees

you may also want to try using suitescript 2.0 instead

the error looks like its coming from an internal library and the internals of suitescript 2.0 is different from the internals of 2.1

It was a good suggestion - and I redeployed the script as SS 2.x but the error remains :sleepy:

2.x can be 2.0 or 2.1 depending on the account, its usually more sound to explicitly use 2.0