Overview

Custom User Data is an advanced tool that enables you to store and useful if you want to be able to reference additional information about your mobile workers. By users in forms or cases.  By default, when you register a new mobile worker Mobile Workers you can specify their username, first name, last name, and password. Custom User Data allows is an advanced tool that enables you to store and reference any number of additional fieldsinformation about your mobile workers. For example, you could create a category of users, additional location data, or other metadata.

Usage

Custom User Data is useful if you want to be able to reference additional information about users in forms or cases.  For example, you may automatically want to store the user's district or village as part of any cases they register to make future data analysis easier.  

Introduction Video

View the introduction video for Custom User Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkuOp_3JDI

Using Custom User Data

Configure Custom User Data

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There are two ways to add custom user data - through the Mobile Workers section of CommCareHQ, or through Bulk Upload

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CommCareHQ Mobile Workers Page

After you configure the user data, each time you add a new mobile worker the CommCareHQ user will be prompted to populate the field, in addition to the standard username and password fields. Required fields will have to be populated at the time of creating the mobile worker, while other fields are optional. These can be filled in during registration, or when editing a worker account.

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Bulk User Upload

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