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New community supported open source tool These features are supported by the CommCare Community of Practice. While Support for these features is not included as part of your CommCare subscription, please feel free to refer any questions or issues about the content of these pages to the CommCare Forum. |
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CommCare Sync is a self-hosted, standalone, web-based application app that can be used to manage a CommCare “data warehouse.” It’s acts as a suite of configurations, with an improved user experience UX from the current command-line Data Export Tool. This turn-key tool allows you to export your data from CommCare in a simple, configurable way and CommCare and save it to a local or cloud-based database (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Amazon RDS, GCP Cloud SQL, Azure SQL Database). |
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Download your DET config file from CommCare
Download or create a Data Export Tool config file
The easiest way to create these is to start with a normal export configuration on HQ and have it generated. See Creating an Excel Query File in CommCare HQ for more details.
Edit the DET file using the “best practices” below
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If you haven’t already, add the CommCare project space in the “CommCare Setup” tab.
If you haven’t already, add a CommCare account that has access to the project space.
Important note to Dimagi users: Do NOT use your superuser @dimagi.com account, follow the steps below to create a user below. Create a web user for a specific project, and set up API key for that user (under Account Settings). You can use a "+" in your email address that tells you what your web user is for. e.g. "firstnamelastname+demo-cc-sync@dimagi.com"
Add the export from the “Exports” tab.
On the export details page, click “run”.
When the run completes, view the logs to confirm it ran successfully.
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