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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)

Learning more about the power of QWeb templates

Now that we have learned to make that small change, let's look a little closer at how Odoo is able to use the exact same template for both the quotation and the sales order. In fact, you may have already figured out how Odoo does this from looking at the code we modified a little bit.

One of the best things you can do to learn how to modify reports is to look at existing reports within Odoo and see how they accomplish what you wish to accomplish. When trying to solve a problem, see if you can find another report in Odoo that is already doing something similar to what you want.

It is often a lot easier to copy and paste part of a template you need and then change it rather than trying to get all the <./?> syntax straight and just right. It's easier if you are working from a reference point.
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