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Case properties are useful because:1-
- we can see them in the case list and case details, if we choose to
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- we can reference them in other forms
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- in some cases, they are useful for data purposes
Let's go ahead and save everything most of the questions from the Registration form as case properties.
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Make sure to save all of your changes.
2. Save Data from the Home Visit Form
Navigate to the Home Visit Form Case Management Tab
You will notice that in this tab, because it updates a case (instead of registering a new case), the display looks a bit different:
Go ahead and ignore the left side for now, we will come back to that.
On the right side of the screen, under "Save data to the following case properties" select questions until you see something like this:
You may notice something interesting here- "feeling_sick" is the same name as a case property from the registration form. And you are correct! This actually means that they are the same case property. We save a value for feeling_sick at registration, and then here in the followup form we save a new value for feeling_sick. This new value will overwrite the old value. Both values will be available in CommCareHQ as form data, but the case data will only show the most recent value of this question.