Medic Bulk Utils is a set of command line tools and documentation to help manage large amounts of Medic Mobile data.

The following command line tools are installed with this package:

• medic-stats
• medic-import
• medic-format-csv
• medic-csv-to-json
• medic-update-embedded
• medic-extend-properties
• medic-export-mysql-query

A new project typically begins with a spreadsheet of raw data that you want to update or add (import). This might be an export from a database or maintained some other way.

Create a directory for your project:

mkdir medic-projects-493

Create your package.json:

{
  "name": "medic-projects-493",
  "dependencies": {
    "medic-bulk-utils": "latest"
  }
}

Install the dependencies:

npm install

This repo is bundled with a set of project templates for common tasks. This is a good starting point for your projects. You can just copy and modify these files in your working directory to get started. Each project template also includes a Makefile so after installing you can execute make to run the example.

• Import users
• Import users with related data
• Import contacts (places and people)
• Import pregnancies

Example:

cp -i node_modules/medic-bulk-utils/project-templates/import-users/* .
make

Then read the instructions:

cat Readme