Mike Robbins · Rockford, Illinois, USA
I write software for a living. This is the rest of me.
Personal writing on what I'm building, reading, and thinking about. The technical deep-dives moved to DataTek Software so this place is off the clock.
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Send Sales Order Billing Schedules to Salesforce
We needed to send the billing schedule from sales orders to Salesforce. We just need to send the full list of billing date and invoice amount. But there's a wrinkle.
Data Generation for Dev Environments
Managing one or more development environments? How do you keep them relevant over time. If they become stale, it makes working on new projects with current data difficult. Here, I’ll explain a series of steps I’ve taken to maintain my development environment ensuring current sales order, invoice, and customer payment data.
Tips when using lookupFields()
Here are a couple of tips when working with `search.lookupFields()` in SuiteScript 2.1.
Scripted vs Saved Searches
**Unpopular Opinion**: I prefer to use scripted searches in my SuiteScript rather than referencing existing, external saved searches. Here’s why.
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