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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we examined Odoo's advanced searches and dashboards. Advanced searching allows you to search based on a variety of fields and save your searches so that you can easily pull them up later. Using these features, you can more easily find the data you are looking for and place data that you need frequently into your own personal dashboard.

In the next chapter, we will begin to take a look at how you can customize Odoo to meet the specific needs of your organization. We will discover how to activate Developer mode, which will allow us to append fields to Odoo's screens. We'll then begin adding our own fields to forms for collecting data, to lists for finding and displaying the data, and to models, which handle all the rules and methods for storing the data in the underlying PostgreSQL database. But first, what is the single most important thing...