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How to Enable CommTrack?

After setting up your CommCareHQ workspace, click your username on upper right hand and select Project Settings. Go to the left navigation pane and select Feature Previews under Project Administration.  Enable CommTrack and update previews.

UI differences you would notice once you have CommTrack enabled

  1. Logo: CommCareHQ -> CommTrackBeta
  2. Project Settings / CommTrack Settings 

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  • stock levels
  • consumption settings
  • phone settings

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CommCare Supply from a CommCare App Designer's Perspective

If you are used to designing a CommCare application, there are many parallels from CommCare that might make you understand CommCare Supply better:

  1. Unlike CommCare where web users can build forms and configure case management, CommCare Supply app building will be done by developers until CommCare Supply becomes fully self-service. FMs would need to setup locations, products, and programs for their supply chain. This can be easily done in the relevant project space on HQ.
  2. Each location or supply point is a case in CommCare Supply just as each registrant (mother, child, farmer) is a case in CommCare.
  3. Unlike CommCare where cases are registered, updated, and closed by mobile users, locations in CommCare Supply can only be created by web users. 
  4. In addition, after locations are configured, location information is available in the form through the special locations Lookup Table. 
  5. Each location / supply point is associated with a set of products configured per domain. Product information is made available through lookup tables, not cases.

  6. CommCare Supply can auto-populate a lookup table to assist with consumption and forecasting calculations. This lookup table provides a configurable rolling average monthly consumption. This data can be referenced in CommCare forms, and is essential for translating the raw data on ‘how much do I have in stock?’ into meaningful information on ‘how many days before I run out?’ and ‘how much should I reorder?’

When CommCare Supply is enabled for a given CommCare domain, you'll notice the following differences. None of these changes should break any pre-existing apps.

  1. A tab labeled 'Setup' appears on the top navigation bar: This is where web users setup a CommTrack system 
    • Products
    • Programs
    • Consumption: setting up default consumption values for products
    • SMS: setting up CommTrack SMS system
    • Location: web users create and manage facilities in which CommTrack system will be implemented to track products
    • Location(Advanced): web users configure the geographic and logical distribution of facilities in which CommTrack system will be implemented to track products
  1. Hidden CommCare Reports
    1. All reports under 'MANAGE DEPLOYMENTS' are hidden
    2. Section 'MESSAGING' is renamed as 'LOGS' but reports are all the same
  2. CommTrack specific reportsThere would be a new section 'COMMTRACK' including three reports and two maps
  3. Stock Status by Product
  4. Inventory
  5. Reporting Rate
  6. Stock Status (map)
    7. Reporting Status (map)can set up the locations and products for the project's supply chain
  7. In the 'Reports' tab, a set of five CommCare Supply reports appears. 
  8. Additional CommCare Supply-specific settings are available when configuring web users, mobile users, and the project settings