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If I have a custom record that is a child of a transaction record, with a field on the custom record called custrecord_myrec_transaction, what is the best way in SS2 to determine the type (e.g. Sales Order, Invoice, Vendor Bill) of the transaction that the child record is on (from the child record)?

transaction search or query to get the record type

second best is using another field to source the type if you are willing to write a lookup to convert the name to the id

Do an https.get to the URL - <https://xxxxxx.app.netsuite.com/app/accounting/transactions/transaction.nl?id=RECORDID>. NS will translate the URL to the appropriate form and if you add &amp;xml=T you can parse the XML for baserecordtype. Otherwise you can use the form type used on the URL (<http://itemship.nl|itemship.nl>, <http://salesord.nl|salesord.nl> etc...) to translate it to record.Type enums.

I’m still going to have to convert to the `record.Type`

why are there two sets of labels, it sucks

still don’t know why they have two different things, it’s confusing

likely answer is transaction types predate suitescript