[kentroylance]

I have the following filter that isn’t returning the right result:

filters[0] = new nlobjSearchFilter(‘internalid’, ‘contact’, ‘is’, input.id);

filters[1] = new nlobjSearchFilter(‘firstname’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue).setOr(true);

filters[2] = new nlobjSearchFilter(‘lastname’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue).setOr(true);

filters[3] = new nlobjSearchFilter(‘companyname’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue).setOr(true);

filters[4] = new nlobjSearchFilter(’email’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue).setOr(true);

filters[5] = new nlobjSearchFilter(‘entitystatus’, null, ‘anyof’, leadStatusCodes);

This is not working how I would want it where I really want:

filters[0] and (filters[1] or filters[2] or filters[3] or filters[4]) and filter[5]

Is there a better way to do this that works.

Thanks,

Kent
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[MikeBucklaew]

Hi Kent,

Can you build your search using the user interface to get the results you want? I’m a big fan of a tool that david.smith put together. https://usergroup.netsuite.com/users…pt-1-0-and-2-0 You create a saved search in the user interface and then it generates SuiteScript code for you based on that.

[kentroylance]

Unless I am missing something, I can’t see how to group a criteria with ands and ors within the tool.

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david.smith replied on 02/16/2017, 03:42 PM: Within the UI you have to click the checkbox to USE EXPRESSIONS

[david.smith]

I would highly suggest getting used to using the filter expressions. It’s just a set of arrays. I think what you’re looking for is something like this:

Code:
[
[‘contact.internalid’,’is’,input.id],
‘and’,
[
[‘firstname’,’contains’,input.searchValue],
‘or’,
[F2],
‘or’,
[F3],
‘or’,
[F4]
],
‘and’,
[‘entitystatus’,’anyof’,leadStatusCodes]
]

[kentroylance]

First of all, thanks for your help. I cannot for the life of me figure this out.

I actually tried that, but I couldn’t get it to work. I took exactly what you have with a few modifications, and I am getting this error: Code: SSS_INVALID_SRCH_FILTER_EXPR_OBJ_TYPE Details: filters

var filters = [

[‘contact.internalid’, ‘is’, input.id],

‘and’,

[

[‘firstname’, ‘contains’, input.searchValue],

‘or’,

[‘lastname’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue],

‘or’,

[‘companyname’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue],

‘or’,

[’email’, null, ‘contains’, input.searchValue]

],

‘and’,

[‘entitystatus’, ‘anyof’, leadStatusCodes]

];

The output looks like this: contact.internalid,is,29998,and,firstname,contains ,mark,or,lastname,,contains,mark,or,companyname,,c ontains,mark,or,email,,contains,mark,and,entitysta tus,anyof,7,6

Thanks again for your help.

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david.smith replied on 02/16/2017, 04:16 PM: Remove the “null” values from your arrays. The filter expressions use dot syn for the joins.

[kentroylance]

That was the trick. Its the devil in the details that will get you every time. Thanks again for all your help.

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