In the last few months, Salto has released several noteworthy updates that enable our NetSuite customers to find and identify the right configuration elements faster, save time, and streamline deployments to complex environments. In this blog post, I want to explore three key improvements we’ve made, with real-life examples of how our customers already make use of them. 

Aliases: Easily recognize your metadata elements

Identifying metadata elements in NetSuite is not always easy. To help solve this challenge for Salto’s users, we’ve added aliases that provide a clear reference for each element. Instead of dealing with default Script IDs, you can implement more intuitive naming. Improving the overall clarity of your instance with aliases will help streamline system management. 

For example, one of Salto’s customers, a multi-subsidiary business, has created aliases to distinguish between financial reports from different subsidiaries at first glance. Aliases can also be helpful when you’re trying to find a specific saved search in your environment (some of our customers have hundreds of them!) or backtrack an element in your change log.

Better visibility with bundle IDs

Another useful thing we’ve added is filtering by bundle ID. In Netsuite, bundle IDs are used to organize related configuration objects. Now you can search and filter your metadata by bundle ID in Salto and find all the elements from that bundle. This improvement made searching for related dependencies even easier, allowing you to clearly see the full scope of every change.

Another customer of ours, a large manufacturing company, has numerous bundles in their NetSuite configuration, and each contains many different element types. With this update, it's much easier for the team to see all related elements at once when filtering by bundle ID.

SuiteScript references for streamlining deployments

NetSuite professionals often struggle with understanding SuiteScript dependencies, especially if they are not comfortable reading code. Now Salto can extract and identify SuiteScript references, allowing our users to easily determine dependencies between elements. 

Let's say you are using a reference from a SuiteScript to one of your saved searches. Salto will highlight the connection and show exactly what saved search is referenced there. This improvement helps assess changes correctly and ensure every deployment goes smoothly.

I hope you find these updates helpful and keep exploring Salto for NetSuite. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch—and keep sharing your feedback with us so we can continue to improve our platform.