DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLIENT SCRIPT SAVE FUNCTION AND USER EVENT BEFORE SUBMIT FUNCTION?

A lot of times validation is required on submit of a record and developers can get confused on whether to use client script save function or user event before submit function to perform the validation. The below points can be used to make an informed decision.


TRIGGER POINT:

 Client script save is triggered only on create, edit and copy.

User event before submit is triggered on create, edit, delete, xedit, approve, reject, cancel (SO, ER, Time Bill, PO & RMA only), pack, ship (IF), markcomplete (Call, Task), reassign (Case), editforecast (Opp, Estimate)

Also user event before submit has a type parameter to check the trigger type. Client script save function doesn't have any parameter. To check the trigger type in client script, you will need a pageinit function as well which can be used to copy the type to a global variable which can be accessed on save.
USER PERMISSION:

 A client script can triggered only based on the role permission of logged in user.  Hence, if you are trying to access or  create any record, then users who trigger the script must have the permission for that record.

User event script can be deployed to execute in any role. It can be executed in Admin role to prevent any issues related to user permission.

EXECUTION CONTEXT:

 A client script save function is triggered only when record is saved via UI.

A user event script can trigger when record is saved via UI, Webstore, other scripts (except

UE), CSV etc.

JAVA SCRIPT FUNCTIONS:

 Client script can be useful when some of the javascript functions like alert, prompt, docuemnt,getElementById() etc needs to be used.

User event script before submit can't be used for giving alert or prompt.


PREVENTING RECORD SAVE

 Record can be prevented from being saved based on certain validations by returning false from client script save function.

User event before submit functions will have to throw error using createerror api to prevent user from submitting the record.

DEPLOYMENT

 Client script can be deployed on Netsuite record, forms and can also be attached to suitelet scripts.

User event scripts can be deployed only on Netsuite records.


SERVER SIDE API'S

 Client script cannot be used to used to execute server side api's like scheduling api's, file api's etc. A backend suitelet will have to be called from client script to perform these actions.

User event before submit function function can make use of all the server side api's.


Note: A user event before submit is usually preferred ahead of client save unless you want to throw an alert or prompt.

contact us at:
Email : info@smilingcoders.com


Comments

  1. SCApril 30, 2020 at 4:36 AM

    We are NetSuite Solution Provider with vast experience in NetSuite Implementation, netsuite customization including netsuite training & netsuite integration.
    NetSuite Solution Provider
    NetSuite Training
    NetSuite Implementation
    NetSuite Customization
    NetSuite Integration

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Work Around the 1000 Row Limit Returned by Saved Searches in Netsuite

nlapiSearchRecord can return only upto 1000 rows. But there is a work around to retrieve more than 1000 rows. This can be done by first sorting the result based on internal id and then using while loop and use concat method to get all results by internalid number as a filter inside the while loop. The sample code is given below: var filters = new Array(); filters[1] = new nlobjSearchFilter('mainline',null,'is','T'); var columns = new Array(); columns[0] = new nlobjSearchColumn('internalid').setSort();  //sort the result based on internalid var results = nlapiSearchRecord('transaction',null,filters,columns);  //search record var completeResultSet = results;  //copy the result while(results.length == 1000){  //if there are more than 1000 records      var lastId = results[999].getValue('internalid');  //note the last record retrieved      filters[2] = new nlobjSearchFilter('internalidnumber',null,'greaterthan',lastId);  //cre
Read more

USING CASE (IF AND ELSE) IN NETSUITE SAVED SEARCH- NETSUITE ACADEMY

While creating a saved search in Netsuite, you want encounter a situation where you want have to display a value depending on some conditions. Such scenarios can be implemented by using sql CASE syntax in the formula field. For eg, in a transaction search, if you want to display a value depending on the transaction type, then you can add a formula text field in coulmn and use CASE as given below: CASE WHEN {type}='Invoice' THEN '0' WHEN {type}='Journal' THEN {status}  ELSE '' END The above field will display 0 when type is Invoice. It will display status of the transaction when type is Journal and for other transaction type, it will be blank. NETSUITE ACADEMY Feel free to reach out TheSmilingCoders for proper  netsuite implementation ,  netsuite consultation  ,  netsuite customization ,  netsuite Support , netsuite Training    contact us at: Email : info@smilingcoders.com Facebook :  https://www.facebook.com/Smiling-Coders-Netsuite-Tra
Read more

Understand Core Technology behind SuiteScript 2.0

As a netsuite solution provider we want to share, The core of  SuiteScript 2.0 came from the RequireJs and CommonJs background. RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environment. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code. Commonjs  defines a module format. Unfortunately, it was defined without giving browsers equal footing to other JavaScript environments. Because of that, there are CommonJS specification proposals for Transport formats and an asynchronous require. In NetSuite Customization and netsuite implementation    RequireJS tries to keep with the spirit of CommonJS, with using string names to refer to dependencies, and to avoid modules defining global objects, but still allow coding a module format that works well natively in the browser. RequireJS implements the Asynchronous Module Definition (formerly Transport/C) proposal. D
Read more