How to access Args inside dialog() in a runbasebatch class?

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args is a local variable in main() method. You’ve never passed it to the VCInstrumentCreateForm object, therefore you indeed can’t use it there.

You need a variable for holding the Args object (or maybe just the record, if that’s what you’re interested in) in VCInstrumentCreateForm class, and a method that will allow you to set a value to this variable.

Then you can set the in main() like this:

static void main(Args _args)
{
    VCInstrumentCreateForm instrumentCreateForm = VCInstrumentCreateForm::construct();

    if (!_args || !_args.record())
    {
        throw error(strFmt("@SYS29104", classStr(VCInstrumentCreateForm)));
    }

	instrumentCreateForm.parmArgs(_args);
   
    if (instrumentCreateForm.prompt())
	{
        instrumentCreateForm.run();
	}
}

By the way, please always attach a tag with the version (such as AX 2009 or D365FO) when creating a new thread. There are significant differences between versions (for example, AX 2012 came with a new framework for these things), therefore knowing the version is very important for these discussions.