Accessing selected Case ID in Case List from sub menu with Advanced Modules

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#1

Hi,

I have the following menu structure:

  • Standard Module 1 (case_type_1)
    • Advanced Module 2 (case_type_2)

One of the properties of case_type_2 is an ID of case_type_1. There is no parent/child relationship between these case types.

I can’t find the xpath expression that would allow me to filter the case list in Module 2 based on the case_id of the case selected in Module 1.

Could you help me figure out what would be the correct xpath, if this is possible?

Thanks,

#IT4LIFE

#2

Hi Guillaume,

I think that the expression you want is

property_for_case_1_id = instance(‘commcaresession’)/session/data/case_id

which I believe should filter the list of case_type_2 cases based on the selection from the first case list.

-Clayton

#3

Hi Clayton,

Thanks for your answer. I had tried this before and it didn’t work. I was really puzzled since I had seen that answer in many places in the forum and on the wiki. It turns out it was a copy/paste issue with the single quotes… My zen was tested again.

Cheers,

#4

Ah, right, sorry. Discourse annoyingly automatically replaces the ASCII single quote with unicode fancy quotes, which wreaks havoc on copying and pasting some expressions.

I found a setting in discourse that claims to disable this behavior so that we won't have similar issues. Added some tests below

'test'
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instance('casedb')/casedb/case[testvalue = "one"]

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