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Unexpected Error

Common causes of NetSuite UNEXPECTED_ERROR and practical checks for SuiteScript troubleshooting.

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In the course of using NetSuite, you may encounter a nondescript “UNEXPECTED_ERROR.” We’ve encountered this too and are documenting the scenarios in which this comes up.

Computers simply do as they were told - whether by you or the core NS engine developers.

SuiteScript

  1. When attempting to load a file with an invalid internal DI
  2. When using the N/email module and the author or recipient does not have an email address
  3. When merging templates (emails or PDF) and passing in a JS string instead of integer as the Template ID or a RecordRef