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For example conatiner EmpId, which stores employee ids [1000,1001,1002,... etc] and container EmpName, which stores employee Names["Rafeeque","John",...etc]. this is the  way a container stores data.

Then how to retrieve data from containers?. The conPeek() is used to retrieve a specific element from a container. 

From the above example it is very clear that values from container EmpId is retrieved by using the code conPeek(EmpId,i), where EmpId is the name of the container and "i" is used for the position of the element to be returned. Similiar way data are retrieved from EmpName and Salary containers. You can copy paste above codes directly to your visual studio.

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RunBaseBatch :  You can design your own batch job by extending the RunBaseBatch class. You can also write code to schedule the batch to run. The batch runs on the Application Object Server (AOS). RunBaseBatch is an extension of RunBase – it adds a support for batch processing.

How to do this...

Here we are going to demonstrate a simple example which is creating a dialog form which is extending RunBase Framework class. In the next articles we will demonstrate more complex examples for RunBase frameworK.

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You can follow the below steps to complete the practical example,

1.  Create a project , here i created a project D365DialogProject.

2. I used already existing model Fleet Management. you can create new model as        per your requirement.

3. Add a new Runnable class and rename it NewCustDialog. Then , add the                    following code snippets:

4. Is is important to extend RunBase Application Class because the RunBase                  framework uses the Dialog framework to prompt a user for data input.

class NewCustDialog extends RunBase
{
   DialogField fieldAccount;
   DialogFIeld fieldName;
   CustTable   custTable;
   CustAccount custAccount;
   CustName custName;
   public container pack()
   {
       return conNull();
   }
   public boolean unpack(container _packedClass)
   {
       return true;
   }

   Object Dialog()
   {
       Dialog dialog;
       dialog = super();
       // Set a title fordialog
       dialog.caption( 'Simple Dialog');
       // Add a new field to Dialog
       fieldAccount =dialog.addField
       (extendedTypeStr(CustVendAC), 'Customer account' );
       return dialog;
   }
   public boolean getFromDialog()
   {
       // Retrieve values from Dialog
       custAccount =fieldAccount.value();   
       return super();
   }
   public void run()
   {   
   //Set Dialog field value to find CustTable
   custTable = CustTable::find(custAccount);
   if (custTable)
   {
       // Shows retrieved information
       info( strFmt('%1 -- %2' , 
       custTable.AccountNum, custTable.name()));
   }
   else
   {
       error( 'Customer Account not found!');
   }    
   }
   public static void main(Args _args)
   {
       NewCustDialog custDialog = new NewCustDialog();       
       if(custDialog.prompt())
       {
           custDialog.run();
       }
   }
}

5. In order to test the dialog, right-click on this class and set as startup project. 

6. Build your project. Now, run the project. The following form will appear in the internet browser:

Here i input  the customer account value as "DE-001", which is the customer account code for the customer "Contoso Europe"  this customer details i created earlier for testing our example.

After successful build a dialog will open , putting a customer account code and press ok button, On my example I will use it to show the customer account information on infolog.

How the code works...

Here create a new class NewCustDialog with the above code, its important ro extend RunBase because the RunBase framework uses the Dialog framework to prompt a user for data input. By extending it from RunBase, we utilize astandard approach to develop data manipulation functions in Dynamics 365 for Operations. The RunBase framework will define a common structure and automatically add additional controls, such as the OK and Cancel buttons, to the dialog.

Then, we declare class member variables, which will be used later. The DialogField type variables are actual user input fields. The rest of the variables are used to store the values returned from the user input.

Then, we declare class member variables, which will be used later. The DialogField type variables are actual user input fields. The rest of the variables are used to store the values returned from the user input.

Then Override the method Dialog(), this method will be used to give “form” to our Dialog:

Then  Override the method getFromDialog(), the code below will be used to retrieve the Dialog field values:

Then Override the method run(), use it to process whatever you want to. On my example I will use it to show the customer account information on infolog.

In order to make this class runnable, the main() static method has to be created. Here, wecreate a new CustCreate object and invoke the user dialog by calling the prompt() method. Once the user has finished entering customer details by clicking on OK, we call therun() method to process the data.

Execute your class, check results.