ChatGPT Writes Easy to Understand NetSuite SuiteScript

This article is relevant if you are interested in the advances of Artificial Intelligence and NetSuite programming.

Background

Many articles have been published on Open AI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence capacities in the last few weeks.  I started to play with it  — indeed, I was delighted with how well it understood my requests.   In a conversation with my technical team, some are just getting familiar with ChatGPT.  So, I asked a basic SuiteScript question to show how it works.

Please Write Me Some SuiteScript

Here is what I asked ChatGPT:

“Please write NetSuite SuiteScript to upload a file to the file cabinet”.

ChatGPT Response to My Request to Write SuiteScript

In less than 15 seconds, here is what it responded with (click on the image to see how it looks to get a response).  The SuiteScript is version 1.0, which is still supported but no longer being developed.

To upload a file to the file cabinet in NetSuite using SuiteScript, you can use the nlapiCreateFile function. This function allows you to create a new file record in the file cabinet and upload the file data from a local file or from a remote URL.

Here is an example of how you can use this function to upload a file to the file cabinet:

function uploadFile(fileName, fileType, fileData) {
  // Create a new file in the file cabinet
  var file = nlapiCreateFile(fileName, fileType, fileData);

  // Set the folder for the file
  file.setFolder("1234"); // Replace "1234" with the internal ID of the folder

  // Save the file to the file cabinet
  var fileId = nlapiSubmitFile(file);

  return fileId;
}

To use this function, you will need to provide the following arguments:

• fileName: The name of the file that you want to upload
• fileType: The file type, such as “PDF” or “JPG”
• fileData: The file data, which can be either a string containing the file data or a JavaScript object with the following properties:
  • path: The path to the local file that you want to upload
  • url: The URL of a remote file that you want to upload

Note that the nlapiCreateFile function has a number of other optional arguments that you can use to set additional properties for the file, such as the file description or the file encoding. You can find more information about these optional arguments in the NetSuite Help Center.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions or need further assistance.

I refined my question to ask for SuiteScript 2.x, and it appropriately refined the answer. Click the image to see the response.

Keeping Up with NetSuite Skills and Capacities

I speculate we are really going places with artificial intelligence.  It’s important to watch this new capacity and learn how it opens up our future.  My instinct is that we must keep working on “upping our game” to be valuable to others.

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Marty Zigman

Holding all three official certifications, Marty is regarded as the top NetSuite expert and leads a team of senior professionals at Prolecto Resources, Inc. He is a former Deloitte & Touche CPA and has held CTO roles. For over 30 years, Marty has produced leadership in ERP, CRM and eCommerce business systems. Contact Marty to set up a conversation.

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