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Hi,
 
My question here is regarding starting an emergency for multiple groups.  Assuming I had 3 DMP groups, wherein the parent group has two child groups:

- DmpParentGroup (id = 1)
- DmpChildGroup1 (id = 2)
- DmpChildGroup2  (id = 3)

If I submit an emergency start payload that contains the DMP group IDs for both DmpParentGroup (1) and DmpChildGroup1 (2), will the emergency be started twice for DmpChildGroup1, or does the DMP have a filtering/handling mechanism for this case?

<emergencyApplication id = "1">
    <groupList>
        <group id = "1"/>
        <group id = "2"/>
    </groupList>
</emergencyApplication>
 
Thanks,
Elaine
 

The query above will deploy the emergency application to both groups, regardless of their relationship. Are you trying to achieve something other than this result? 

The query above will deploy the emergency application to both groups, regardless of their relationship. Are you trying to achieve something other than this result? 

 
My question is would there be an overlap in case of DmpChildGroup1, i.e. will the emergency be fired off twice (since this DMP group has technically been targeted twice, once as a child group of DmpParentGroup, and again on its own as DmpChildGroup1)?  Or would the DMM have some sort of hiearchy resolution built in to ensure that the emergency request only gets activated once for DmpChildGroup1?  My main concern here is that the emergency gets displayed more than once (which could be confusing to the users) or there might be an error as a result of two consecutive emergency requests being sent to the same DMP group.  Could you please advise on this?
 
Thanks!