CommCare March Updates: New Mobile Version 2.4, CommCareHQ Improvements
March 6, 2013
- Improved error messages
- Removed “view answers” option when in CommCare Sense One Question per Screen mode
- Added the ability to configure an audio message warning when the user logs into the app in demo mode
- Support multiple user logins: now multiple users can log into the same phone and maintain separate case lists
- Install your application by entering a short code on the installation screen (just the end of the bit.ly link). No more barcode scanning required!
- # unsent forms appears on the sync button
- Improved error messages
- Keep font consistent across screens
- Add multimedia validation tool to the home screen menu
- Add app name to the login page
- Add new Tablet Friendly dual-pane select process (tablets only)
- Ensure screen transitions do not pop up the full screen keyboard unnecessarily
- Update “back” behavior across the interface to always go to the previous screen
- CommCareHQ speed improvements
- Navigation improvement: app builder menu/form outline remains visible while in form designer
- Adding a menu image/audio to a form or module sets a suggested filepath automatically
- Better error messages in the app builder
- Multimedia uploader supports upload of menu multimedia (form and module icons and audio)
- Remote update to CommCare on Androids is faster and smarter: only changed forms are remotely updated to the phone
- Ability to access a child case’s parent case properties in detail screen
- CloudCare speed improvements
- CloudCare now reports form and app logic errors to you more directly instead of just spinning forever or loading an empty case list
- Form Completion Time report sorts correctly (previously it was alphabetical, now it is numeric / datewise as appropriate)
- Case ID shows in the case view on HQ
- Null values consistently show as “—” in both the case and form export
- Exchange usability improvements
- Two new CommCare Settings that configure when the phone warns the mobile user if they have too many unsent forms or have not synced in too long: “Unsent Form Limit” and “Unsynced Time Limit”
- New “Phone Number or Numeric ID” question type
- Streamlining question properties to show field relevant for your question type
- Repeat Count can now be set in the logic section by dragging a question into the Repeat Count field
- Add a constraint message or hint text without worrying about the itext checkbox
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Dimagi
Product Updates