The evidence generator caters for all of the high level, repeatable patterns that have been identified across a number of large evidence based solutions provided by the application. These patterns are outlined in detail in the Cúram Evidence Generator Specification guide. Custom solutions may identify patterns not catered for by the generator. In these instances it will be necessary for the solution to develop the entities manually, i.e. outside of the generator. It is believed that such patterns are in the minority.
The evidence generator is run as part of the standard Cúram build targets. It iterates through every evidence folder under each component. It initially looks for one specific file, evidence.properties. This should define the paths to a number of files and folders required during generation. If evidence.properties does not exist, the generator moves onto the next folder.