To push an Emergency Contact List to a BlackBerry smartphone, configure a Browser Channel push with the Emergency Contact List. A test application has been created and can be referred to in this article: DB-00442.

• BlackBerry® Enterprise Server version 4.0 and 4.1

If the Emergency Contact List is in an email message, forward it to the BlackBerry smartphone. Then, save it on the BlackBerry smartphone.

The Emergency Contact List (ECL) sample application makes contact data in a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet readable from BlackBerry smartphones. ECL uses BlackBerry push functionality to publish contact data to many BlackBerry smartphones.

There are two forms of the ECL demo. Each one uses a back-end program and a program on the BlackBerry smartphone. The back-end program is run from the command line or user interface (UI) to push the contact data to BlackBerry smartphones by communicating with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The program on the BlackBerry smartphone listens for incoming pushed updates and displays an icon on the BlackBerry smartphone to view the latest data that the BlackBerry smartphone has received.

The form first uses Browser Channel Push, where the server encodes the contact data in an HTML page and pushes the page to the BlackBerry® Browser.  When the BlackBerry Browser receives a Channel Push, it stores the pushed content in its cache and adds an icon to the main ribbon that acts as a bookmark to the page. In this form, the program on the BlackBerry smartphone is the BlackBerry Browser, so there is no ECL-specific code that needs to be installed on the BlackBerry smartphone.

The second form pushes to a Client Catcher. The server encodes the contact data into a nonstandard format and sends that to a custom application on the BlackBerry smartphone. When this catcher receives a pushed message, it stores the encoded data locally using the BlackBerry persistence framework. The BlackBerry smartphone UI displays its locally stored copy of the contact list in a collapsible tree form.