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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 the Project dashboard

After installing the Project Management application, the screen will be refreshed and you will see the Projects dashboard. The dashboard provides an overview of the active projects and comes with the project we added in the previous chapter, Sales Team:

We can see in the summary that the project we created in the previous chapter has 0 Tasks, as we never added any tasks to the project. If you click on Timesheets, you will be taken to the two activities we created.

While this project was useful for an internal example of using a project to time various employee activities, let's see how we can use the Project Management application to manage various tasks for a customer.