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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)

Understanding actions

We've already seen how we can modify views and create custom search criteria, so you should be well on your way to making customizations that are quite useful. At some point, however, when you wish to create a new view or a specific type of filter, you are going to need to understand actions so that you can change the way an Odoo application behaves.

As we learned earlier, we can use actions to trigger views. Let's begin by taking a look at the list of actions that are already in your Odoo installation. While in developer mode, under the Settings menu, under Actions, choose Window Actions. You will be presented with a list, as shown in the following screenshot:

Window Actions

In the previous screenshot, we filtered the list of actions to only those named sales order. Let's now create our own custom rush order action that will allow us to create...