This article is relevant if you need to feed in a list of internalids to serve as input criteria to drive a NetSuite Saved Search.
Background
While helping solve a client’s challenge to lookup a customer deposits that are related to invoices via sales orders, I need to use two saved searches. While I can use the Content Renderer Engine to link these, it’s a one time analysis so going to the tool isn’t really applicable. Due to way the data is laid out, I need the results of one NetSuite Saved Search feed into the criteria of another Saved Search.
Solving The Feed of One Search to Another Search
I previously discussed how to do this in my other article, How To: NetSuite Saved Search: Look Up Records from Another List. This article is just another example where instead I use the Oracle Decode PLSQL function to effectively make my search criteria hold a bit more information in the Saved Search criteria text box. The trick is to get the Saved Search tool to return a 1 if the internalid matches. See image for the format. 
Here is a snapshot of my Excel sheet that helped me create the formula.
prolecto-excel-netsuite-decode-template-20170122.
Go After NetSuite Results
The NetSuite platform is powerful and yet, many times, if may seem that your hands are tied. Indeed, going to a spreadsheet to manipulate data is the way to go. If you would like help with your NetSuite report or search challenge, let’s have a conversation.
