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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

Installing Odoo studio and adding a new field to a view


Odoo Studio was recently launched along with Odoo version 10. You can customize screens and reports, add new fields to model, create an automated action or create a new business application from scratch without any development skills. You can design awesome reports and create some automated business workflows too using Odoo studio.

Customizations done in Odoo Studio can be exported as an Odoo module. Developers or consultants can use Odoo Studio to bootstrap new modules or to create a prototype model of the proposed application.

Let's see how it will be easy for the non-Odoo developers to apply the customization without development.

Getting ready

We assume that you have a duplicated database to test the features without affecting the master database.

How to do it...

  1. Odoo Studio is a module like any other Odoo app. Go to Apps and search for studio. You will be able to see the Studio application as follows:

You can also click on the customization...