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1. Saving Data from the Registration Form
Go to your application and click on the gear icon next to the "Register" form, navigating to the Case Management Tab, as shown shown below:
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So far you have only saved data to one case property- a special one called "name." Every case has a property called "name" which is important so that we have something not-technical to refer to each case. It doesn't have to be a person or village name- it could be an ID code or some other sort of identifier. And as noted in the previous tutorial, two cases can have the same name property.
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Go to the drop-down menu that says "Select a Question" and choose the question "Village Name:"
You will see that CommCare automatically populates the Case Property column with the Question ID. You can manually change this if you want to call it something else in the case. Changing the name here will not affect the Question ID. However, if you want to refer to village in a different form you'll have to call it by the Case Property instead of the Question ID. Case Property names follow the same rules as Question IDs (i.e. you can't start with a number, you can't have spaces or special characters, etc.)
Go ahead and also add the questions about Date of Last Menstrual Period, Living Children, Feeling Sick, and Total Children so that your "Save data" box looks like this:
Make sure to save all of your changes.
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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:
Under "Save questions 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.
Case Property descriptions are pulled from the Data Dictionary. When a case property contains a description, it will be displayed beneath the name of the property. If that description is updated, it will be reflected in the data dictionary as well. Each time a new property is added to the case, it will be added to the data dictionary. In the event that the description of a property is updated, the update will also be reflected in the data dictionary.
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