Do you have data in another system that you would like to import into
CommCare?
Previously, our Case Importer allowed you to update existing cases in
CommCare with data from an excel file. Now, you can use the same kind of
excel file to create cases too. On import, you can set case properties and
assign the case to one of your existing users.
We hope this makes it easier to transition to CommCare and to integrate
with any other data collection systems.
This looks like a great feature. I have not yet tried to use it, but have
read the documentation and have a couple of questions:
1 - How do you configure the owner of new cases, and can the case owner be
a case sharing group?
2 - Are you planning to extend the tool to support creating child cases?
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Tyler Wymer wrote:
Hi all,
Do you have data in another system that you would like to import into
CommCare?
Previously, our Case Importer allowed you to update existing cases in
CommCare with data from an excel file. Now, you can use the same kind of
excel file to create cases too. On import, you can set case properties and
assign the case to one of your existing users.
We hope this makes it easier to transition to CommCare and to integrate
with any other data collection systems.
"1 - How do you configure the owner of new cases, and can the case owner be
a case sharing group?"
For configuring the owner you can map a column to the owner_id field.
Unfortunately this needs to be the actual id of the group or user which can
be found in the URL. See this screenshot: Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life.
Case sharing groups and users both work for this.
"2 - Are you planning to extend the tool to support creating child cases?"
We have discussed this but there isn't a plan to start this quite yet.
Tyler Wymer
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On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ray Brunsting wrote:
This looks like a great feature. I have not yet tried to use it, but have
read the documentation and have a couple of questions:
1 - How do you configure the owner of new cases, and can the case owner be
a case sharing group?
2 - Are you planning to extend the tool to support creating child cases?
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Tyler Wymer twymer@dimagi.com wrote:
Hi all,
Do you have data in another system that you would like to import into
CommCare?
Previously, our Case Importer allowed you to update existing cases in
CommCare with data from an excel file. Now, you can use the same kind of
excel file to create cases too. On import, you can set case properties and
assign the case to one of your existing users.
We hope this makes it easier to transition to CommCare and to integrate
with any other data collection systems.
