We just wanted to make a quick announcement of a new feature that we think
will be useful to many of you. We have been receiving a growing number of
requests to help people clean up their case data, for example by reopening
cases that were accidentally closed, or by removing forms that were
accidentally submitted against a case.
This is now possible to do this directly on CommCare HQ. In order to use
this feature you have to first find the problematic form (either in the
Submit History or the Case List reports). When viewing the form, click the
"Archive this Form" button. This will cause the form to disappear, and will
reverse any changes that the form caused in the case history*. A few
special cases of this where it is has more uses:
if the form closed the case, it will cause the case to be reopened.
if the form was the only form submitted to the case (i.e. it
registered/opened a new case), it will cause the case to be deleted
if the form created or updated multiple cases, the main case and all
subcases will be affected
You can undo this operation at any time. Go to the "Raw Forms, Errors &
Duplicates" report, filter by "Archived Forms". Click the "Restore this
Form" button to unarchive the form and restore the changes this form made
to the case.
Archived forms will not appear in form exports (unless you check "include
duplicates" in your Form Export Filter).
Note: the changes will not appear on phones until the phones sync with the
server.
Happy data cleaning!
The HQ devs
*EXCEPTION: If the form added a case property to the case, that property
will not be changed. This essentially means that archiving the form will
not remove case properties, it will only revert case properties back to
their previous values, if they had one.
Is there any push feed for notifying external systems that a particular
form has been archived? For example, we receive a registration form and
enroll that patient into a schedule and a series of IVR calls. Suppose that
form is archived, is there any way for our system to become aware of this
fact besides arbitrarily polling by the form ID?
When a form is archived, does the xform id stay in the list of xforms
submitted against the case (from the cases API)?
Thanks!
-Russell
···
On Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:40:05 PM UTC-4, Cory Zue wrote:
>
> Hi users,
>
> We just wanted to make a quick announcement of a new feature that we think
> will be useful to many of you. We have been receiving a growing number of
> requests to help people clean up their case data, for example by reopening
> cases that were accidentally closed, or by removing forms that were
> accidentally submitted against a case.
>
> This is now possible to do this directly on CommCare HQ. In order to use
> this feature you have to first find the problematic form (either in the
> Submit History or the Case List reports). When viewing the form, click the
> "Archive this Form" button. This will cause the form to disappear, and will
> reverse any changes that the form caused in the case history*. A few
> special cases of this where it is has more uses:
>
> - if the form closed the case, it will cause the case to be reopened.
> - if the form was the only form submitted to the case (i.e. it
> registered/opened a new case), it will cause the case to be deleted
> - if the form created or updated multiple cases, the main case and all
> subcases will be affected
>
> You can undo this operation at any time. Go to the "Raw Forms, Errors &
> Duplicates" report, filter by "Archived Forms". Click the "Restore this
> Form" button to unarchive the form and restore the changes this form made
> to the case.
>
> Archived forms will not appear in form exports (unless you check "include
> duplicates" in your Form Export Filter).
>
> Note: the changes will not appear on phones until the phones sync with the
> server.
>
> Happy data cleaning!
>
> The HQ devs
>
> *EXCEPTION: If the form added a case property to the case, that property
> will not be changed. This essentially means that archiving the form will
> not remove case properties, it will only revert case properties back to
> their previous values, if they had one.
>
Is there any push feed for notifying external systems that a particular
form has been archived? For example, we receive a registration form and
enroll that patient into a schedule and a series of IVR calls. Suppose that
form is archived, is there any way for our system to become aware of this
fact besides arbitrarily polling by the form ID?
Any affected cases will reappear in the case feeds. Forms do not currently
reappear in the form feeds. I think we would need to add a new mechanism to
support that if it was needed. If you think that's the case please emails
me off thread and we can discuss your use case more.
When a form is archived, does the xform id stay in the list of xforms
submitted against the case (from the cases API)?
No, it is removed.
Putting these two together, it will be hard for existing systems to easily
answer "which form was archived", but as long as you have the relevant case
info maybe that's ok?
thanks,
Cory
···
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Russell
>
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:40:05 PM UTC-4, Cory Zue wrote:
>>
>> Hi users,
>>
>> We just wanted to make a quick announcement of a new feature that we
>> think will be useful to many of you. We have been receiving a growing
>> number of requests to help people clean up their case data, for example by
>> reopening cases that were accidentally closed, or by removing forms that
>> were accidentally submitted against a case.
>>
>> This is now possible to do this directly on CommCare HQ. In order to use
>> this feature you have to first find the problematic form (either in the
>> Submit History or the Case List reports). When viewing the form, click the
>> "Archive this Form" button. This will cause the form to disappear, and will
>> reverse any changes that the form caused in the case history*. A few
>> special cases of this where it is has more uses:
>>
>> - if the form closed the case, it will cause the case to be reopened.
>> - if the form was the only form submitted to the case (i.e. it
>> registered/opened a new case), it will cause the case to be deleted
>> - if the form created or updated multiple cases, the main case and all
>> subcases will be affected
>>
>> You can undo this operation at any time. Go to the "Raw Forms, Errors &
>> Duplicates" report, filter by "Archived Forms". Click the "Restore this
>> Form" button to unarchive the form and restore the changes this form made
>> to the case.
>>
>> Archived forms will not appear in form exports (unless you check "include
>> duplicates" in your Form Export Filter).
>>
>> Note: the changes will not appear on phones until the phones sync with
>> the server.
>>
>> Happy data cleaning!
>>
>> The HQ devs
>>
>> *EXCEPTION: If the form added a case property to the case, that property
>> will not be changed. This essentially means that archiving the form will
>> not remove case properties, it will only revert case properties back to
>> their previous values, if they had one.
>>
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