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Script In Formula Text Search Result

I have a search result column where I'm using the record ID to pass parameters as a link to a non-netsuite external site I own that is designed for a specific non-NetSuite task.
The link is working great and the formula looks something like this:
'Use Tool'
However, I'd like to add some script to it by using onClick, and each time I've tried this either I get back invalid expression or the script seems to get stripped out of the link.
I've added what should just be a simple alert window with the record id as a test like this:
'Use Tool'
but using the dev tools to inspect this the search result shows up like this:
Use MT Tool With Tracking
I'd like to track something simple like which user clicked the link and what day it was, but I'm starting to think that this might not be possible.
Has anyone ever tried doing something like this before?
Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help.

It may be a rudimentary attempt on NetSuite's part to prevent XSS attempts, but if you don't need to support Internet Explorer you can get around it using the template literal syntax.
'Use Tool'

I still think the escaped double quote is a problem ☺, but I was able to duplicate your issue in preview mode (I think it's a result of NetSuite's whence parameter). Run or Save and Run does not encounter the issue. See screenshots of Search Formula Text fields below and corresponding elements when run.
Lazy Loader
Result
Element

How to write a twitter-like RichText box for mentioning entities?

After weeks of trying and testing to find a solution for my needs I admit that I still have no idea how I can solve this problem.
It sounds simple: I want that a user is able to mention things in a text area similar to twitter.
The problem is that I can't seem to manage it to make it work. Every browser has its own specialties which are coming into my way and break things. I have tried multiple different attempts but none of them worked even on a single browser completely.. mixing text and HTML appears to be incredibly hard to do.
So here I am. Asking you guys for any kind of help. Whether it's a library you can recommend me that is already doing what I need here, or if you did something similar and can tell me what exactly you did to make this work on multiply browsers.
My current solution looks something like this: Hitting # will insert a input text field into a div contenteditable everything is working nice so far unless the whole thing is the first element of a row. If the caret is also at position 0 and the user hits Enter, then something dies inside the browser which removes the whole input box without further notice or any events - at least not on Chrome. That was the most promising solution that I was able to come up with. Don't think I didn't try to save it by inserting e.g. a native Text with a zero-whitespace-character but that doesn't work either. It works better - but not completely.
I'm really frustrated by now and this is holding my whole project back which has this key feature that has to work properly - mainly because the information put there is going to be persisted as XML but that is a completely different story.
I really hope somebody can help me to get a solution for this. Bear in mind that I am actually using GWT 2.8.0 but I would not mind to use/wrap a JavaScript library at this point ..

Where to report Javascript bugs?

Imagine this: You want to make some things with a XML element you receive in a method. So you try this:
function makeNiceThings(XMLDOM){
if(XMLDOM.getElementsByTagName("err")){
makeReallyNiceThings(XMLDOM.getElementsByTagName("err")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
}
}
So, Javascript tells you you're trying to call childNodes[0] from a null reference. But if you try:
function makeNiceThings(XMLDOM){
if(XMLDOM.getElementsByTagName("err")[0]){
makeReallyNiceThings(XMLDOM.getElementsByTagName("err")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
}
}
It works flawlessly.
However, you update the page sometimes, and both are working again, no problems at all.
I have already faces so many situations like this, that I really want to know if there is a place I can show these bizarre errors in order to make javascript even better. Google returned me nothing but places to discover programmer errors. Ideas?

Well, I don't see an issue there. In the first example you may get and empty array which is not nothing. So the condition becomes true. Whereas in the second example you do what you really meant to do — check if there's an element with index 0.
Or, if you are really convinced that this is not your fault, you should do what Rocket Hazmat said:
Bugs with JavaScript itself should be reported to the bug tracker of
the browser. Though, chances are this is not a bug with JavaScript.
But most probably this is a mistake in the code. If there's no err elements, you'll get an empty array and the condition will be evaluated to true; but there's no 0th element — that's why you get an exeption.
Hope that was clear.

Strange scientific notation behavior in javascript

I stumbled upon some strange behaviour of auto-magically parsed numbers in javascript.
I have some product objects to show in a tabs component (of jquery UI) and these objects are only temporary so I prepared for every one of them some unique ID. I generate them so they look like this: 540718791327b
The thing is my script which used them to identify on which tab I actually work at the moment stopped working at some point. I didn't know what happened until I did some debugging. I noticed that the uid I had in source like this: 5407153722e09 was being read by javascript as a number: 5407153722000000000. It seems javascript treated my number as a scientific notation.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce it with jsfiddle, but here it is so you get an idea what am I doing: http://jsfiddle.net/7a3952qt/
Generally at my PC the console.log(uid) returns 5407153722000000000 instead of 5407153722e09. (on my webpage, on jsfiddle it works fine)
Maybe someone has any idea what might be going on? What can be the cause of behaviour like this?

Open link in popup window

I might be tired but I just can't figure out what the problem is. What I'm trying to do is open a link in a popup window. I got this code below working before but I removed it.
About
However, it stopped working now when I put it back. I even got it working on jsFiddle so I'm at lost on what to do. I'm assuming something must be blocking it from running?
The code is short and simple so I figured someone here might have an idea what could cause this.
EDIT: Sorry I should have thought of it. I guess I should sleep. Anyway here's a demo-website where I reproduced the problem http://testmycode.tumblr.com/ The problem is the "About" link, pressing it returns nothing.

OK, it seems like somewhere in your code you have changed the window variable to a custom function. When you try to call window.open (more specifically, document.window.open), the method open simply doesn't exist in the function window, which causes it to throw an error.
Check this out:
You somewhere changed it to a function by doing document.window = ....
It's MooTools 1.2.4 which changed it:
To fix it, simply using an EventListener and problem solved! (Inline codes are bad practice anyway.)
<a class="about">About</a>
$(".about")attr("href", "#").click(function(e){
window.open(...);
e.preventDefault();
});

The snippet you shared works when I append it to the page we are at, in Google Chrome. Which makes me wonder which browser you are having the trouble in. So I would encourage you to try the snippet you shared in Google Chrome, and if it works there then you will know it is a browser specific kind of bug, in which case I would try adding a semicolon after return false.