In SO Options do you have 'Retain Deleted Lines in Orders/Quotes' set to 'No'?

It is set to Yes.  (Prompt does the same thing).

Deleting a line normally (not via script) the deletions are recorded properly, but the script removals are represented incorrectly in history.

Not really a surprise. Not having history files not updated as a result of artificially changing a file, that is through means other than manual entry, has a long and colorful history.. I would not be surprised if they told you to add a line to update the history file.

BigLouie,

While this is custom, I would not say it is being done "artificially".  I'm using the Sage script command from KB 43033.

It works on the main SO table, but not in the SO history table... which should be automatically performed by the business object.  That is the whole point of BOI scripting. 

Knowing what extra work is done by the business object and reproducing that in a script... defeats the purpose of using business objects.

Hi Kevin,

The history retention is layered in the line entry function of DeleteLine(key).  Try these small changes to your code above

' SO header pre-total script
retVal = 0
sItemCode = ""
Set oLines = oSession.AsObject(oBusObj.Lines)
retVal = oLines.MoveFirst()

do until oLines.EoF
 retVal = oLines.GetValue("ItemCode$", sItemCode)
 if sItemCode = "/DELETE_ME" then
  delRowKey = ""
  delRowKey = oLines.GetKey()
  retVal = oLines.DeleteLine(delRowKey)
 end if

 retVal = oLines.MoveNext()
loop ' oLines

Thanks Elliot!  I was hoping for something simple.  Alnoor pointed me in a similar direction but I couldn't get the correct syntax (...my fault in not getting the row key properly).