[sherwin_suremak]

Im trying to copy a projecttask to another project. The source task has many sub-task under it and im trying to go through it of the child task and copy it to the target project. However when i tried to set the parent task, i got an INVALID_KEY_REF error. Below is the code im trying:

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_copyTask(158824, 193532,null); // 158824 is the taskID of my source task. 193532 is the targetProject. null is initially pass since there will be no parent task for the initial call

function _copyTask(srcTaskId, targetProjectId, parentTaskId){

// Make sure source task exist

var oSrcTask = nlapiLoadRecord(‘projecttask’, srcTaskId);

if( null==oSrcTask ) {

return {error:’Invalid source task ID’};

}

// create a copy of the sourceTask

var oNewTask = nlapiCopyRecord(‘projecttask’, srcTaskId);

oNewTask.setFieldValue(‘company’ ,targetProjectId);

if(null!=parentTaskId && ”!=parentTaskId) { /* change parent if parentTaskId is provided */

oNewTask.setFieldValue(‘parent’ ,parentTaskId);

}

// I still have other thinks to do in task here

var newTaskId = nlapiSubmitRecord( oNewTask ); /** this is where the INVALID_KEY_REF error happens */

// get sourceTask children

var srSrcTaskChild = nlapiSearchRecord(‘projecttask’, null

,[new nlobjSearchFilter(‘parent’,null,’is’,srcTaskId)]

,[new nlobjSearchColumn(‘internalid’)]

);

if(srSrcTaskChild.length>0) {

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[david.smith]

I’m thinking this is the same but simplified if statement:

Code:
if(parentTaskId)
I know this wasn’t in your original question but this will throw an error eventually.

Code:
// get sourceTask children
var srSrcTaskChild = nlapiSearchRecord(‘projecttask’, null
,[new nlobjSearchFilter(‘parent’,null,’is’,srcTaskId)]
,[new nlobjSearchColumn(‘internalid’)]
);
if(srSrcTaskChild.length>0) {
I learned a little trick from someone once and I really like doing my searches like this:

Code:
// get sourceTask children
var srSrcTaskChild = nlapiSearchRecord(‘projecttask’, null
,[new nlobjSearchFilter(‘parent’,null,’is’,srcTaskId)]
,[new nlobjSearchColumn(‘internalid’)]
) || [];
if(srSrcTaskChild.length>0) {
If the search returns null it will fail on the length of your if statement. Making sure the search returns an array (even if empty) will prevent this.

[ironside]

I use

Code:
if ( _.some(srSrcTaskChild) ) {}
in cases like this. It describes more clearly what you’re actually trying to achieve -‘if there’s some values, then do something…’

_.some() works reliably with collections, null, undefined, [], or even objects.

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