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
- CommCare Fundamentals
App Building Tutorials
Core Information
- Starting with a blank app or an existing app and the CommCare Exchange
- Form Builder - 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
- Design
- Best practices in application building
- CommCare for Low-literate Users
- Application Design Overview and Open Source Specifications
- General Workflow Suggestions
- Call Center Application Set-up
- Application Review - a checklist of design and quality issues to make sure you've considered
- Language Support - how to manage multiple languages in your application
- Language configuration (for Applications)
- Form Bulk Translation (for forms)
- User Interface Translation
- Local Language Support
Advanced Resources
- Common Logic and Calculations
- CommCare Functions
- Lookup Tables
- 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)
- Multiple Choice Questions with Cases as Choices
- Use Excel to Build CommCare Forms
