App Building Home
This is the main page for everything related to designing and building CommCare applications. Try following the beginning tutorial to get a feeling for what is involved in building an application. Then you can look at some applications designed by other organizations and go through some recommendations about how to design an effective and useful app. Finally you will find a number of useful references and tools to help in building your app, no matter how advanced.
Introduction
- Terms and Concepts - the CommCare glossary
App Building Tutorials
- Beginner Tutorial (English)- basic form building
- Beginner Tutorial (Indonesian; pdf file)
- Beginner Tutorial (French)
- Intermediate Tutorial (English)- form building + case management
Core Information
- Starting with a blank app or an existing app and the CommCare Exchange
- Form Designer - overview of the form designer, a tool you can use to create forms for CommCare
- Errors building an application - help in interpreting error messages while building applications
- Application Settings
- Manage Applications ("Deploy")
- Design
- Language Support - how to manage multiple languages in your application
- Language configuration (for Applications)
- Bulk Translation (for forms)
- User Interface Translation
- Local Language Support
Advanced Resources
- Common Logic and Calculations
- CommCare Functions
- Conditional Select Options
- Case Management
- Time Zone Settings
- Export Form Contents
- Configure Email Reports
- Workflow Support - best practices for common workflows
- Referrals in CommCare
- Advanced Tools
- CommCare Localization Tools (Ethiopian Calendar for CommCareODK)
