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Working with Odoo 10 - Second Edition

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Working with Odoo 10 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Para 1: Take full advantage of the benefits of the Odoo module ecosystem whilst learning how to modernise your business with Working with Odoo 10. Covering everything from Odoo development essentials through to CRM and analytic accounting, this guide is a must-have for Odoo beginners. Para 2: A powerful set of open source enterprise management applications, Odoo 10 gives you access to a website builder, integrated e-commerce features, and a fast-growing community to allow you to transform your business. Para 3: With this Odoo book you?ll learn how to set up Odoo online, configure basic company settings, and then explore CRM in Odoo. You?ll cover all the Odoo development essentials and much more, including purchasing application, ERP systems, analytic accounting, and other recent Odoo features. Para 4: What?s Inside ? Understand Odoo installation & the basics of implementing Odoo in your business ? Explore accounting & finance setup and modules to help business efficiency ? Build a website with Odoo ? Customise and configure Odoo to an advanced level
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Working with Odoo 10 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understanding actions


We've seen already how we can modify views and how to create custom search criteria. From here, you're well on your way to making customizations that are quite useful. At some point, however, when you wish to create a new view or a specific type of filter, you are going to need to understand actions so you can change the way an Odoo application behaves.

As we learned earlier, we can use actions to trigger views. Let's begin by getting a look at the list of actions that are already in your Odoo installation. While in developer mode, under the Settings menu under Technical| Actions, choose Window Actions. You will be presented with a list:

In the preceding screenshot, we have filtered the list of actions to only those named Sales Orders. (Be sure to type the plural: sales!) Let's now create our own custom rush order action that will allow us to create a menu to easily pull up only the sales orders that are rush orders. This is a perfect example of simple customization...