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PostCap mechanism

The 
BlackBerry AtHoc
IIM
 device has a push button console attached to it. The following steps describe how the PostCap mechanism works:
  1. Press the 
    push
     button. An alert template is picked from the Alert Template folder and its time, date, and other fields are updated. A CAP message is created from the alert template.
  2. The CAP message is placed in the 
    Encode
     folder.
  3. If an encoder is configured in 
    IIM
    , that encoder processes the CAP message and activates the strobe light.
  4. The CAP message gets posted to the 
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     management system using the PostCap Web API.
  5. On successful posting of CAP message to the 
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     management system, a relay gets closed and the led light glows indicating that the alert was sent.
  6. In the 
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     management system, the mapping activates the template and publishes the alert.
  7. If the alert has the industrial strobe selected to target the 
    IIM
    , the strobe is activated again unless the CAP alert is already marked as processed.
  8. Sometimes the alert has a new CAP payload which the 
    IIM
     processes separately.
For detailed information about how CAP is mapped to an alert template, see the .
PostCap mechanism activation diagram