SuiteScript Server Pages Feature for Custom Web Store

SuiteScript Server Pages (SSP) empower NetSuite developers to create and customize web store applications effectively. This feature incorporates various components to enhance web presence and dynamic content generation, necessary for effective eCommerce strategies.

What Are SuiteScript Server Pages?

SSP applications allow developers to create, view, and manage dynamic web content. Key features include:

• SuiteScript Server Pages: Essential for building, viewing, and customizing applications.
• SuiteScript 2 Server Pages: This enables the use of SuiteScript 2.0 for developing SSP applications. It's important to note that applications built with SuiteScript 1.0 continue to function as expected with this feature enabled.

Enabling SuiteScript Server Pages

To successfully implement SSP applications, enable the following features:

• SuiteScript Server Pages: Required to create, view, or customize SSP applications.
• SuiteScript 2 Server Pages: Necessary for utilizing SuiteScript 2.0 in SSP applications.

Permissions are also crucial; users must have SuiteScript permission to access SSP Application records. This permission can be set up under Setup > Users/Roles > Manage Roles.

Understanding the SSP Application Record

The SSP Application record serves as the central object in NetSuite to manage website customizations. This record encompasses various properties important for deployment and functionality:

Precedence in SSP Applications

When multiple SSP applications share the same URL and hosting root, NetSuite employs a precedence system to determine which application processes a request. Notably, this system does not apply to SuiteScript 2.0 applications as they cannot share a URL and hosting root simultaneously.

Supported File Types in SSP Applications

SSP applications support specific file types to enable web store customizations:

• .ssp files: These are SuiteScript Server Pages that can be written in HTML or server-side SuiteScript, allowing for dynamic content building with includes, suitelets, and RESTlets.
• .ss files: Serving as special request handlers written in SuiteScript, these files can manage both frontend and backend processes, responding with various output formats.

Both file types are executed on the server, providing access to SuiteScript APIs for server-side operations. SSP applications crafted with SuiteScript 1.0 can also utilize the Commerce API for further customization needs.

Commerce API Usage

The Commerce API is integral for customizing web stores on the SuiteCloud platform, providing access to unique web store objects and related methods. However, it's important to note that this API is not compatible with SSP applications developed using SuiteScript 2.0.

Related Topics

To dive deeper into SSP applications, the following topics are recommended:

• SSP Applications Compared to Customization with SuiteScript
• Create and Use SSP Applications
• Upload SSP Application Files
• Debug a SuiteScript 1.0 SSP Application

Key Takeaways

• SuiteScript Server Pages enable robust web store customization in NetSuite.
• Both SuiteScript 1.0 and 2.0 can be leveraged for SSP applications, each with specific requirements.
• SSP applications utilize a structured precedence for requests based on URL sharing.

Source: This article is based on Oracle's official NetSuite documentation.