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Hi,
What's the difference between creating a batch job by code and add it to a certain menu item AND creating a batch job for the batch job form.
What's the reason for choosing one of those over the other and what are the benefits of each one?
Hi IntegrationBeginner,
Can you clarify your question? I'm not able to understand what exactly you are asking here. Is this related or a duplicate with your other question?
Hi Andre,
This is related to the other question.
So there are two ways to create a batch.. it's either I create it by code and add a menu item OR I go to system administration -- inquiries--, batch jobs then create a batch job from there
So my question is: what's the difference between both ways and when I should use each one and what are the advantages/disadvantages of each one
Result will be the same, since jobs will be executed by batch service.
Sometimes, I prefer to manually create jobs to group and create dependency between tasks. But it’s a manual process.
Hi Nuno,
Can you explain please what do you mean by create jobs to group AND create dependency between tasks?
You can define constraints in tasks. Example: start task 2 after task 1 is executed successfully.
You normally create manual jobs on this scenarios.
You can also define tasks with code. So there is no difference. The important thing is the form records. It doesn't matter where these records are created (from Form, menu item or x++ code)
There is no difference as such in the execution of the batch job.
But I would suggest to create a Action menu item for that batch job. By this, if you ever need to run the batch class for a test purpose maybe, you can directly run it using the Menu item instead of using the Class runner form.
The second point is, if you want to schedule the batch, you can directly set the recurrence from the Menu item as well. The manual process of creating a batch and then adding the task will take more efforts unless you have dependencies between multiple batch tasks.
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