Netsuite: How to modify a SuiteLet sublist via linked Client Script?

Question

I have a SuiteLet with an empty sublist. A button on the SuiteLet directs to a Client Script which is attempting to populate the sublist. I'm encountering a strange error on my Client Script—"undefined is not an object (evaluating 'olddata[i]')." This is a JavaScript error, I believe referring to "rec" in the following code. The error initiates on "rec.commitLine."

  function populateSublist(fieldValues, rec, availableItems) {
        log.debug("Rec", rec);
        if (availableItems[0]) {
            for (i = 0; i < availableItems.length; i++) {
                try {
                    rec.selectNewLine({
                        sublistId: 'custpage_items_sublist'
                    });

                    rec.setCurrentSublistValue({
                        sublistId: 'custpage_items_sublist',
                        fieldId: 'custpage_parent_frame',
                        value: availableItems[0].item_parent_frame
                    });

                    // More values being set...

                    rec.commitLine({ // <=== *** RIGHT HERE ***
                        sublistId: 'custpage_items_sublist'
                    });
                } catch (e) {
                    log.error("Unable to commit line - " + e.name, e.message);
                }
            }
        } else {
            log.debug("No available items for given parameters.")
        }

Here are some things I know:

"rec" is working previously and getting field names I need.
"rec" is showing "{"id":"","type":null,"isDynamic":true}" in my execution log.
The beginning of my Client Script uses var rec = cr.get(); to receive the record.

Is it possible to modify a SuiteLet sublist from a Client Script? I've never done this in particular before, so I'm at a loss here. Any help or ideas are immensely appreciated! Thanks!

Yes. What sublist type are you using from the serverWidget module? — zerecees
@zerecees, you are right on. We discovered recently that the LIST type is not supported for editing in a Client Script. We needed to switch to INLINEEDITOR or move the editing back over to the SuiteLet for this to work. — Ben Rogol

Ben Rogol Ben Rogol · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-21T16:16:55

We were able to resolve this issue recently. This problem was due to defining the SuiteLet sublist as SublistType.LIST. NetSuite doesn’t support editing sublists defined as “LIST” outside of server-side scripts. Thus, we encountered this strange error when trying to edit it via the Client Script.

Two possible solutions are:

Change SuiteList SublistType to “INLINEEDITOR.” Move sublist editing over to Server Side (SuiteLet).

Thanks! Perhaps this will help someone out in the future at least.

Netsuite: How to modify a SuiteLet sublist via linked Client Script?

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