Case details - department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow GitHub Wiki

Goal

  • Caseflow users have enough information about the Veteran and appeal to complete their task

Aspects of case details, and their goals

  • case title
  • currently active tasks
  • issues
  • hearings
  • power of attorney
  • about the veteran
  • about the appellant

Data in case details, and where it lives

  • Constants (or data that is dependent on the Veteran's life/circumstance) includes:
    • Remand reasons
    • Co-located admin actions
    • Diagnostic code descriptions (for issues)
    • Dispositions (for issues)
    • Judge case evaluation options
Field Data source for legacy cases Data source for AMA cases
Veteran name BGS - no edit BGS - no edit
Veteran ID VACOLS - no edit Caseflow - no edit
Veteran address BGS - edit in SHARE BGS - edit in SHARE
Veteran DOB BGS - no edit BGS - no edit
Docket number VACOLS - Jed edits sometimes Caseflowreceipt_date + database ID - Caseflow team to edit
Appellant VACOLS - edit in VACOLS BGS - edit in SHARE
Appellant address If appellant is not a Veteran, we pull address from VACOLS. If appellant is veteran, we first check BGS, if not found, we pull from VACOLS BGS - edit in SHARE
Power of Attorney BGS - edit in SHARE BGS - edit in SHARE
Power of Attorney address BGS (no addresses for VSOs, yet) - no users should edit BGS - no users should edit
Issues VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - edit in Caseflow
Issue dispositions VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - edit in Caseflow
Appeal type (e.g. AOD) VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - edit in Caseflow
Hearing type VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - TBD, hearing schedule
Hearing date VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - TBD, hearing schedule
Hearing disposition VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - TBD, hearing schedule
Hearing judge VACOLS - edit in VACOLS Caseflow - TBD, hearing schedule
Regional office Geo-match based on Veteran address in BGS Geo-match based on Veteran address in BGS

Case snapshot

About the case

  • Type
  • Docket
  • Document ID (as a copy-able component)
  • Total days waiting (if you currently have a task associated with this case)

Task information

Why are we doing it this way? see slack conversation and #6015

Colocated, attorneys, judges (for legacy and AMA cases):

  • "Task"
  • "From"
  • "Task instructions"

Unassigned:

  • "Assigned to"
Task information (pre-October, pre-AMA)

Colocated:
- "Task"
- "From"
- "Task instructions"

Attorneys:
- "Task information"
- "Assigned to"
- "Assigned by"
- "Assigned on"

Judges (when they are reviewing an attorney's work):
- "Prepared by"
- "Document ID"
  - we will be moving this to "About the case" section within Case Snapshot, as a copy-able component

Actions

  • To be added