Application Building Tutorial Series

Here you will find a number of new CommCare Application Building Tutorials

These tutorials walk through, in detail, how to build CommCare applications. They build upon one another, so it is useful to start with the Beginning Tutorial and move through the tutorials in order.

1. Beginner Tutorial - Start here to get set up on CommCare, get oriented to the application builder, and build your first one-form application!

Setting up a new Work Space
Changing form, module, and application names
Creating a new form
Adding, deleting, and changing the order of questions in a form
Adding Question IDs and Display Text to a question
Adding a display condition using the Expression Builder
Adding a validation condition using the Expression Builder
Testing forms in CloudCare
Making a new version of your application
Testing a form in CommCare

2. Hidden Value Calculations Tutorial - you'll be an expert at form building once you learn how you can use "hidden values" to do calculations!

The possible uses of Hidden values
How to use the Advanced Expression Editor Box
How to do basic calculations in a Hidden Value
How to write "if" statements
How to display the output from a calculation

3. Basic Case Management Tutorial (Case Management Part 1)

Create a Follow-up Form (a little more practice in form building!)
Link your registration and follow-up forms

Note: you must complete Case Management Part 2 in order to successfully use Case Management in CommCare)

4. Advanced Case Management Tutorial (Case Management Part 2)

Why to save data to the case as case properties
How to save data to the case as case properties
Add/remove properties from the Case List
Distinguish between Case List and Case Details
Change Display Text in the Cast List
Change case properties to the appropriate format in Case List
Why to load data from the case
How to load data from the a case
How to carry out logic referring to loaded data