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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)

Installing the Employee Directory

When you install the base Odoo applications, you get the ability to manage system users, but you will notice that there are no menu options for entering and managing employees. To begin working with Human Resource applications, you will need to install the base Employee Directory application.

Go to the Settings menu and install the Employee Directory application using the same process as the previous Odoo applications:

After you have installed the Employee Directory application, you will see a new menu at the top named Employees. Clicking on the Menu will take you to a dashboard that displays the Employees in a Kanban view:

What you may notice first is that, for better or for worse, Odoo does not consider users to be employees. The only employee that is in the current Odoo installation is the administrator. On top of that, there is no built...