Dear CommCare Users,
We're happy to announce the following updates to CommCare. Your questions
and feedback are, as always, welcome and appreciated.
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* *CommCare Mobile
CommCare mobile version 2.3 is now available! Most Android phones will
automatically update to the new version, but for Nokia phones you must
change the version of your application on CommCareHQ to 2.3, rebuild the
app, and re-install it on the phones.
These are the new 2.3 features:
Nokia phones (J2ME)
· Pressing '#' while the audio is playing pauses the audio clip instead of
restarting it
· Network Test is now user friendly with helpful graphics
· Multimedia Validation Screen is now more helpful and easier to read
· The CommCare HQ preview emulator now displays images in 2.3 applications
(but not audio)
Android phones (CommCare ODK)
· Login screen has been rewritten to accommodate more screen sizes
· Dates can now be entered in the Ethiopian calendar format
· Pressing the audio button while the audio is playing pauses the audio
clip instead of restarting it
· CommCare now detects if the app is in airplane mode during sync and
warns the user.
· Added the ability to report issues directly from CommCare
· The completed forms list can now be filtered and includes and labels
forms which are unsent
· More text can now be localized through CommCareHQ
Bug Fixes
· Fixed issues with form entry engine with group display logic
· Fixed issue where canceling load of an incomplete form caused the record
to be lost
· Fixed issue where sync didn't always complete the server pull after
submission
· Fixed issue where "urgent" sync message styling didn't clear out
after successful sync
CommCareHQ
In addition to adding some cool new features, we’ve been working really
hard on improving the speed and stability of CommCareHQ. If you are
dealing with slow Internet connections, you should hopefully see some
improvements! We’re also very excited about a new big addition to
CommCareHQ: the CommCare Exchange
CommCare Exchange
You may have seen our email announcing the CommCare Exchange. We are
pleased to announce the release of the CommCare Exchange. The Exchange is
a platform for CommCare users around the world to publish and share their
CommCare mobile applications with others.
CommCareHQ users can download, modify, and use any published application
under the terms of its license. If you created an application on
CommCareHQ, you can publish your application to the Exchange under one of
the Creative Commons licenses (read here for more on Creative Commons[1]).
Dimagi has started off the Exchange with some of our own content. View it
now at https://www.commcarehq.org/exchange.
We welcome you to start sharing your own applications with the CommCare
community! For more details see our Exchange FAQ [2].
New Features
· “Time until date” format in the case list and detail screen: In
addition to “time since date”, which displays the amount of time (in
months, days, weeks, or years) since a the specified date case property, we
have now included “time until date”.
· Bulk download of users and groups: you can now download the
users.xls template of all your users and groups. This makes it easier to
make any changes and take full advantage of bulk upload of users and
groups.
· Archiving forms: You can now “archive” a form, which will
suppress it from showing in any reports. You can do this by navigating to
the Submit History and viewing a form. However, this will not undo any
changes that the form may have made to the case.
· Instantaneous daily custom form export download: If your custom
exports take a really long time to download, we can set up the daily
download feature. Your custom exports will be generated on a daily basis,
so that when you download the data it will be instantaneous. To set this
up, please contact us at commcarehq-support@dimagi.com. Note that this is
currently only for custom form submission export, not for custom case
export.**
Performance Improvements
· Fixed a bug causing excessive slowness on HQ in general**
· Page speed improvements that help the load time of every single
page by a small amount**
· Improved speed in saving forms from vellum (to be released today)*
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· Improving speed of case list and case manage data speed
improvements**
· add caching framework for reports. we're rolling it out slowly
but expect to make reports faster one-by-one once we are able to do testing
Happy Holidays!
Amelia
[1] About The Licenses - Creative Commons
[2] https://wiki.commcarehq.org/display/commcarepublic/CommCare+Exchange+FAQ