The Broadcast Evidence hook allows customers provide an alternative mechanism for broadcasting evidence. Any time the evidence broker is triggered to look for incoming evidence available for sharing, this hook will be called before the evidence is broadcast to the target case. Customers can use this hook to call processing that is usually invoked when evidence is added to a case. Customers may want to invoke this same processing when evidence is shared on cases. For example, a workflow may be invoked as part of an evidence insert, either pre or post, which initiates other events.
The Cúram Evidence Generator automatically inserts in the create evidence service layer functions a pre and post step for calling custom processing before and after the evidence is created. These steps apply to general evidence creation and shared evidence creation. When the Cúram Evidence Generator is not used, customers can still implement a hook by handcrafting pre and post steps in their own create evidence business processes. Customers should update their existing create evidence processes to distinguish between evidence which is being shared and evidence which is being inserted.