Here you will find a number of new CommCare Application Building Tutorials
Screenshots and Descriptions may not reflect current state of CommCareHQ!
The tutorials in this section were prepared with a new version of the CommCare Form Designer, and as such may look a bit different from what you see on CommCareHQ. When CommCareHQ is upgraded these will be moved to a more prominent location.
These tutorials walk through, in detail, how to build CommCare applications. They build upon one another, so it is useful to start with the Beginning Tutorial and move through the tutorials in order.
1. Beginner Tutorial - Start here to get set up on CommCare, get oriented to the application builder, and build your first one-form application!
In the beginner tutorial you will learn the following:
- Creating a new CommCare Workspace
- Use of the CommCare Form Builder
- Building and testing CommCare applications
The specific skills you will learn are:
- Setting up a new Work Space
- Changing form, module, and application names
- Creating a new form
- Adding, deleting, and changing the order of questions in a form
- Adding Question IDs and Display Text to a question
- Adding a display condition using the Expression Builder
- Adding a validation condition using the Expression Builder
- Testing forms in CloudCare
- Making a new version of your application
- Testing a form in CommCare
2. Hidden Value Calculations Tutorial - you'll be an expert at form building once you learn how you can use "hidden values" to do calculations!
In the Hidden Value Calculations Tutorial, you will learn the following:
- The possible uses of Hidden values
- How to use the Advanced Expression Editor Box
- How to do basic calculations in a Hidden Value
- How to write "if" statements
- How to display the output from a calculation
3. Basic Case Management Tutorial
- Create a Follow-up Form (a little more practice in form building!)
- Link your registration and follow-up forms
4. Advanced Case Management Tutorial