How to open a child case for a supply-point case in CommCare

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I'm trying to open child cases for supply point cases in an app, however I believe I will have to set the owner ID manually for these child cases. Is this assumption correct? Are there other specific workarounds I will have to consider when setting up child cases for a supply point case?

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You shouldn't have to set the owner_id unless your workflow is non-standard. The basic assumption is that all cases will be opened by the facility level user. If this isn't the case e.g. supervisors are creating the child cases, then you will have to manually set the case owner.

You can read more about how to do that on the help site: https://help.commcarehq.org/display/commcarepublic/Assigning+Cases+to+One+of+Multiple+Locations

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CommCare – How to Set Up Case Management to Update Only User Case Data

For this, you can leave the Case Management tab as "does not use cases." This controls the cases of the case type you've selected in your module.

The User Case will automatically be loaded into your form when you choose a form that has User Case setup.

CommCare – Instance Syntax to Search for All Child Cases of a Parent

I'm assuming in this case that you've loaded a the member case into your form, and that you can load the member case ID id into

/data/member_id

What you want to get is:

The count of all member cases which are children of this case's parent, for which the member case has the property mm_is_in_tb_treatment = 'yes'

For now we can create a new hidden value to store the parent household's case ID, since it'll make understanding the full query below easier.

New hidden value: /data/parent_id:

instance('casedb')/casedb/case[@case_id = /data/member_id]/index/parent

All cases which are children of that parent would be referenced as:

instance('casedb')/casedb/case[index/parent = /data/parent_id]

You can now add your new filter directly to the end of that statement and introduce the count

count(instance('casedb')/casedb/case[index/parent = /data/parent_id][mm_is_in_tb_treatment = 'yes']

If you wanted, you could further specify that you (for safety) only want to include children that are member cases and which are open. You can also collapse back the parent ID reference if you want a one-line expression:

count(instance('casedb')/casedb/case[@case_type='member'][@status='open'][index/parent = instance('casedb')/casedb/case[@case_id = /data/member_id]/index/parent][mm_is_in_tb_treatment = 'yes']

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