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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)

Configuring a user to see all accounting options

Odoo configures a basic accounting structure when you install base modules such as Sales and Purchasing. To access all of the accounting configuration options in previous versions of Odoo, you needed to install the Accounting and Finance application. In Odoo 11, you do not install an application to access accounting options, but instead must take a few steps to properly configure any user to whom you wish to provide those options.

We begin by navigating to the Settings menu and then clicking Activate the Developer Mode on the far right of the dashboard:

In this case, we are turning on Developer Mode just so, we can see all the options that are available for a user. Without Developer Mode turned on, we would not see the necessary options for a given user.

Next, you need to click the Users menu on the left and select the user for...