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Working with OpenERP

By : Greg Moss
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Working with OpenERP

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

<p>OpenERP continues to gain momentum throughout the world in providing the best platform for open source ERP installations. This book covers all the essential modules and how to get the power of OpenERP to work for you.</p> <p>"Working with OpenERP" provides a real-world business solution approach to integrating OpenERP into your small or medium sized business. This book begins by walking you through how to install OpenERP on a Windows or Ubuntu server then takes you through all the essential modules you will need to get OpenERP up and running for your company.</p> <p>All through the book, "Working with OpenERP" provides real-world examples in sales, customer relationship management (CRM), purchasing, manufacturing, human resources, and financial accounting. After covering the basics, you will learn how to customize various methods to configure OpenERP for your business and even build your own custom modules.</p> <p>"Working with OpenERP" covers all the basics of installing and using OpenERP along with advanced real-world examples you will not find anywhere else.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Working with OpenERP
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter we started by learning how to activate OpenERP developer mode. Next we walked through how to make a backup of the OpenERP database and how to restore that database using the manage database tools in OpenERP. It was emphasized how important it is to backup databases prior to performing any customization in OpenERP. Next we went through step-by-step how to customize OpenERP by adding fields to the database and ultimately to forms and views.

In the next chapter, we will explore how we can use the OpenERP workflow editor to customize OpenERP to adapt to the demands of your business processes. For our example, we will be extending the standard OpenERP workflow so that sales orders can only be confirmed once the artwork for that order has been approved.