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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Searching in Odoo

Odoo provides a standardized search box in the upper-right corner of the form. Depending on the menu item, some forms come with predefined filters already set for the list.

If you navigate to Sales and select Customers, you can see the search box in the upper-right corner with the Customers filter preassigned:

Some lists open with a predefined filter that will limit the primary dataset. In the prior screenshot, you can see that the list view, Customers, has a customer filter applied by default when you open the form. Odoo stores customers, vendors, and employees in the same central database table. The Customers filter prevents those other types of data, such as vendors or employees, from displaying in the list:

The Customers filter

In this instance, if you clear the Customers filter by clicking on the small close box in the tag, you will have a list with not...