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This workflow requires a CommCare Software Plan

This feature will only work if you have case sharing enabled between your front line worker and the supervisor via either case sharing groups (Pro Plan or higher), or organizations (Advanced Plan or higher). For more details, see the CommCare Software Plan page.




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titleImpacts Case Loads

This workflow relies on saving all questions as case properties, which will make your cases larger, and could potentially impact overall application performance.


Many projects have a workflow where a front line worker (FLW) collects data, and a supervisor reviews it. While it’s not possible to hold off on sending this data to the server before supervisor approval, you can build your app to enable such a workflow. In this workflow, an FLW collects the data, a supervisor approves it, and a data consumer (e.g. manager at HQ level) downloads the data and can see if it’s supervisor approved or not. The workflow looks like this for an an FLW, and this for a supervisor.Note, this will only work if you have case sharing enabled between your front line worker and the supervisor via either case sharing groups, or organizationssupervisor.

The steps to enabling this in your app are: 

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titleGuide to the Advanced Case Management Tutorial
  1. Saving Data to Case Properties
  2. Advanced Case List Configuration
  3. Case Management Window
  4. Referencing Data Loaded from the Case
  5. How to Create an Edit form
  6. Enabling Supervisor Approval Workflows