Tip: NetSuite Custom Records and Built-in Timestamp Date Information

Here is a quick NetSuite SuiteScript development tip that isn’t well documented.

When you create custom records in NetSuite, all the fields you recreate are well named — by you.  Hence you can reference these easily in your code because you named them.  However, what if you need to get to NetSuite’s built-in date timestamp information?

The date timestamp field names are as follows:

1. Date Created: “created”
2. Last Modified: “lastmodified”

Sample NetSuite Timestamp SuiteScript Code

var custrec = "customrecord_btc_trx_request";
var id = 1543;
var custrecord = nlapiLoadRecord(custrec, id);

nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', 'value of created ', custrecord.getFieldValue('created') );
nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', 'value of lastmodified ', custrecord.getFieldValue('lastmodified') );

Summary

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