Search Transaction Related Records in SuiteScript Using 'applyingtransaction'

A common practice when searching for related transactions is through the 'Created From' (createdfrom) field.  Therefore, if Sales Order has associated Item Fulfilment and Cash Sale, search APIs (e.g. nlapiSearchRecord or nlapiCreateSearch) will be called twice before retrieving the desired result:

      var itemFulfillSearch = nlapiSearchRecord('transaction', null,
         [
            new nlobjSearchFilter('Type', null, 'anyof', 'ItemShip'),
            new nlobjSearchFilter('mainline', null, 'is', 'T'),
            new nlobjSearchFilter('createdfrom', null, 'anyof', SALES_ORDER_ID)
         ]
      );

      var cashSaleSearch = nlapiSearchRecord('transaction', null,
         [
            new nlobjSearchFilter('Type', null, 'anyof', 'CashSale'),
            new nlobjSearchFilter('mainline', null, 'is', 'T'),
            new nlobjSearchFilter('createdfrom', null, 'anyof', SALES_ORDER_ID)
         ]
      );

 

The above codes can be shortened by referencing applyingtransaction field on the search column (or criteria):

      var s =
         nlapiSearchRecord('transaction',
            null,
            [
               new nlobjSearchFilter('type', null, 'anyof', 'SalesOrd'),
               new nlobjSearchFilter('internalidnumber', null, 'equalto', '2380')
            ],
            [
               new nlobjSearchColumn('applyingtransaction'),
               new nlobjSearchColumn('recordtype', 'applyingtransaction')
            ]
         );

      for (var i = 0; s != null && i < s.length; i++) {
         var tranId = s[i].getValue('applyingtransaction');
         var tranType = s[i].getValue('recordtype', 'applyingtransaction');

         if ( tranId == '' || tranType == '') continue;

         nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', tranId + ' / ' + tranType);
      }

This approach avoids redundancy of Search API calls and somehow help reduce governance exceeded errors.

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