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Working with Odoo

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Working with Odoo

Overview of this book

With this practical guide, you will cover the essential modules to get Odoo up and running for your company. After installing Odoo, you will use its sales management application to enter quotes, create sales orders, and invoice customers. You will then learn how to integrate the CRM application to manage your leads and convert them into lucrative opportunities and sales. Next, you will set up your own purchase management system, assigning products to suppliers and tracking orders with the new warehouse management and routing system. Finally, you will learn how to use analytics to track project expenses and keep your accounts simple and easy to maintain and build an Odoo module to extend its functionality and make it work for you. Working with Odoo covers all the core installation and usage functionalities of this popular tool, helping you to fully implement a working ERP system through practical, advanced, real-world examples.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Working with Odoo
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Leave Management


In addition to managing and approving daily timesheets, it is also possible to install an Odoo Human Resources application that will manage holidays, leaves, and other information related to employee time off. We install Leave Management in the same way as the other Odoo applications.

After you have installed the Leave Management application, you will have a new section added under the Human Resource menu; the Leaves section. The primary purpose of this Leave Management application is to provide an easy mechanism for employees to request leave and for their managers to approve or deny the request.

Creating a leave request

When you click on the Leave Requests menu option, you are taken to a calendar that will show your current leave requests. Naturally, if there were no prior leave requests made, or there are none for the current month, then the calendar is empty.

Click on a day in the calendar to tell Odoo to schedule a leave request beginning on that day.

In this example, we...