In building your CommCare forms, you will decide how to nest them within different types of menus. This page describes how you can manage menus in menus and their nested forms in Menu Settings.

Menu Types

Before you build a CommCare form, you will need to decide what kind of menu you want your form to be nested in. Below are some of the options.

Menu Settings

All menu types can be managed in Menu Settings. To find Menu settings, click, the top-level menu item and it will bring you to the settings.

As you can see, menu settings look different depending on the menu item that you have selected

Survey Menu

Read more here: Survey Development

In the Survey Menu, the only settings that exist are related to Multimedia in CommCare .

Case List Menu

Read more here: Case Management

As you can see, the Case List Menu is more complicated than a Survey Menu. In this, we have the following settings

Settings

Menu: This is where you define your case management parameters, including your case type

Multimedia: Like Surveys, this is related to Multimedia in CommCare

Case List & Case Details

On these two tabs, you can define and configure your case management settings, as described here: Case List and Case Detail Configuration

Shadow Menu

A shadow menu essentially replicates another menu that you previously identified.