I need to add an integer to every mobile worker in my project space. If I navigate to the "Users" and then "Mobile Workers" tab and try to edit one mobile worker, the field for username is not editable. Can I edit these usernames en masse via a bulk upload?
Change the username of a mobile worker via bulk uploads in CommCare
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This normally requires a Pro Plan to setup for your project. I think your project may have an older version of the Pro Plan and needs to updated to the newest one. Once that's done, Cory's solution will work.
The export tool can't export users, groups or organisations (locations) but you could use a mapping table to lookup the location or supervisor info based on the user_id.
You could do this by adding a Mappings sheet to your export query that contains the lookup table.
Here is an example of what your query sheet might look like:
We've defined two fields, Location and Supervisor which both reference user_id. We've also added a Mappings sheet as follows:
For each user_id value we have mapped them to the Location and the Supervisor.
When the export is run it will do the lookups the final export will contain the mapped values.
To get the data for the Mappings sheet you can use the user export and organisations (locations) export from CommCare HQ.
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Best Answer
Yes you can modify the username using bulk upload. The caveat being that it will not update the username anywhere else on CommCareHQ. For example if
test1submits a form, and then you change the username totest2, reports and exports will still say thattest1has submitted the datum. The user id will remain the same.