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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

Troubleshooting your module installation


You won't be the first Odoo developer who created a module from scratch to not have it show up in the list of apps. There are a few things you can check if you don't see your application in the list.

First of all, it is always good to know how to check the logfile for errors in your Odoo installation. This is particularly important while you are developing an Odoo module. If you followed the standard Ubuntu Debian install, you can open the logfile and view it with the following command:

sudo nano /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log

To demonstrate how this can be useful, we have modified the silkworm_view.xml file to contain a small error. When we attempt to install the module, we get an error that we can then view in the odoo-server.log:

When we look at the error log, we can see the XMLSyntaxError that was introduced by the error we put into the silkworm_view.xml file. The error log is your first stop in attempting to solve problems.

Now that you know how...