In business, effectively managing transactions is critical to ensuring smooth operations, maintaining accurate records, and providing excellent customer service. Transaction status monitoring allows teams to stay on top of each transaction’s journey from initiation to completion.
In NetSuite, querying transaction status codes can provide useful insights into your transaction data. This simple SuiteQL query demonstrates how to list each transaction status code along with its human-readable description by grouping them uniquely. You can use the following SQL query:
SELECT Transaction.Status, BUILTIN.DF(Transaction.Status) AS Status_Description FROM Transaction GROUP BY Transaction.Status, BUILTIN.DF(Transaction.Status)
Here’s a breakdown of the query:
- Transaction.Status: This column represents the internal code for each transaction’s status. By selecting it, we can view the status codes used across transactions.
- BUILTIN.DF(Transaction.Status): BUILTIN.DF() is a built-in function in SuiteQL that converts internal NetSuite codes into human-readable descriptions. Here, it translates the Transaction.Status code into a user-friendly description, making it easier to understand.
- GROUP BY: Using GROUP BY on both Transaction.Status and BUILTIN.DF(Transaction.Status) removes duplicate entries, providing a clean list of unique status codes and their descriptions.