This article is relevant if you are a NetSuite SuiteScript developer and you want to improve the user experience of your SuiteLets and other NetSuite forms.
Background
When working with NetSuite record data, NetSuite tries to help you not lose your work by warning you with a message: “Do you want to leave this site? Changes you made may not be saved.” with a “Stay or Leave” option. There are times that you simply don’t want this message.
In some recent SuiteLet development work, I needed to ask the user for information that was available via a drop down. Once information was selected in the URL, I wanted to reload the SuiteLet passing the information as a parameter in the URL. NetSuite dutifully would warn as I tried to automatically navigate away to a new page. I wanted to avoid the message as it produced an undesirable experience.
Client Side Script to Resolve
The key to solve this is to simply wipe away NetSuite’s underlying mechanism producing the warning. The following JavaScript snippet does this for you in your client side script:
//avoid the standard NetSuite warning message when navigating away
if (window.onbeforeunload){
window.onbeforeunload=function() { null;};
};
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This is a useful solution for bypassing the “Do you want to leave this site?” message in SuiteLets, improving the user experience. However, it’s important to use this carefully to avoid unintentionally skipping warnings related to unsaved data. Always test thoroughly to ensure it doesn’t conflict with other scripts or functionality. Great tip for specific use cases!