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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)

Creating custom themes in Odoo

Odoo offers a powerful integrated Web Builder application you can use to publish your own business website. You can purchase themes from Odoo's app store but it is also highly desirable in some instances to build your own custom themes. This is a very advanced topic but below are some of the basic steps to follow in building your own custom theme.

Basic architecture of Odoo themes

Odoo themes are more complicated than a simple set of HTML pages or a simple dynamic page that uses JavaScript. Odoo's theme framework is built around blocks in which you can use drag and drop to assemble both your page structure and your page content. Before you start trying to create your own themes make...