You are not crazy, SS2.0 External Suitelets don’t run clientside code

July 6, 2017 Adolfo Garza Comments 446 comments

Hey guys, just letting you know that I encountered an issue recently. I was trying to create a Suitelet “Available without Login” that uses a form and I was attaching a button and a clientscript to it, but guess what? The button doesn’t work. I checked the console and every time I call the button I get “require is not defined” error:

So I stripped the suitelet to the most barebones version and I still got the error. I verified with others and it seems to be a defect from SS2.0 External Suitelets.
At the end of the day I was able to run the code by hacking the dom like so:

form.addButton({

id : 'custpage_mybutton',

label : 'MyButton',

functionName : 'runButtonClickAction'

});

var fileContents = file.load(5835).getContents();

var field = form.addField({

id: 'custpageinjectcode',

type: 'INLINEHTML',

label: 'Inject Code'

});

field.defaultValue = "<script>" + fileContents + "</script>";

and as the clientscript file I have this:

$('custpage_mybutton').onclick = function(){ runButtonClickAction(); } //Removes onclick function that fucks with require

function runButtonClickAction(){

alert('Button clicked');

}

Totally not recommended, but just throwing it out there.