Go to CommTrack setup and select Locations Types. You could add or remove locations from default location hierarchy to make it representing your model. Note this is the only place where you setup the attributes of your locations. All locations (to be registered in another tab) will be instances.
This hierarchy provides information that:
- Example. if you plan to create mobile users for pharmacists (who are in the role of stock-keeping) in multiple clinics in Cape Coast Village, Cape Coast Metro District in the Central region of Ghana, you need to first assign each particular clinic with different labels. In the example project, we want to register mobile users in several village-level facilities located in different districts under the same Great Accra region. So 4 location types are created: Region, District, Village, and Facility. For the Allowed Parent Type, choose the location one-level higher than the one you are creating. For the location on top of the hierarchy, the Allowed Parent Types is just “-top level-”. Once you are done, click Save Settings. You should create a non-administrative location (usually at the bottom of the hierarchy), which will be the last-mile point location managing stocks.
Note that if you plan to register in multiple types of locations and have them report data using CommTrack, make sure all of them have 'Administrative only' deselected.
(For now let's leave SMS Keywords, Stock Actions to defaults. You will not need to worry about these two sections if your project is using CommTrack mobile application instead of 2-way SMS).
OK. Now you have configured your location hierarchy. Let's get down to create locations!