Making NetSuite work for you with scripts

As I mentioned in the previous section, there may be requirements from a client that cannot be met via native features, workflows, or any existing SuiteApps. In these cases, we typically consider whether a SuiteScript can meet the client’s need next. A script is a lot like a workflow, except for a couple of differences.

First, they are developed with what we call code, which is a set of script commands written out in a text file. NetSuite offers its own programming language for automating tasks within the system, and that is SuiteScript. It is based on JavaScript, a very common web programming language that has been around for a long time. There are a lot of developers around the world with JavaScript experience, although learning how to use SuiteScript is not nearly as common a skill.

Second, scripts are executed by the system in the background and they do not have any logs you can see when looking at a given record’...