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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By : Mantavya Gajjar
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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By: Mantavya Gajjar

Overview of this book

Odoo is a Python-based ERP system and is completely open source. Odoo is a comprehensive suite of business applications offering a wealth of functionalities that can be deployed to meet your business needs. This book will help you manage the different functionalities of your business and optimize it. You will learn in detail about the various facets of the business process such as sales, accounting, purchases, manufacturing, and inventory. We will cover each of these topics in detail and learn how Odoo handles all these tasks with much ease. With its modular approach, you will be able to build customized solutions, take advantage of the Odoo 10 system in your organization, and master basic administration. We will cover modules and applications in Odoo that will help optimize quality checks. You will also be able to customize major reporting functions for your teams and set up forms and documents for sales, purchase, inventory, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to use the major functionalities of Odoo 10 and fully implement them into your business.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Set up a project and manage tasks


Managing a project is important in the business of a service company. A project can be anything for the service company—building construction projects for the construction company, a software project is a project for an IT company. Sometimes, the project can be used as a cost center to compute the cost of manpower.

Let's see, using the Odoo project management application how we can set up projects and manage tasks within the projects using stages, compute the cost of manpower, engage in the project using the timesheet, and get customer feedback on the different stages of the project.

How to do it...

  1. Project is an independent yet integrated application just like other applications. It can be found under Apps. Go to Apps and search for the Project application. Click on INSTALL to install the application. It is assumed that Project is your first application you are going to install in the instance:
  1. Like many other applications, such as Sale, Purchase, Inventory...