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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

Create a new menu


When customizing Odoo it is inevitable at some point that you are going to have to create a new menu to pull a new view you have created or perhaps an alternative action that will filter or limit a view in a different way. The ability to create new menus and tie them to your own custom actions can create a better user experience that is more customized to your specific business requirements.

While in developer mode, go the Settings menu and choose Menu Items under User Interface:

Like before, you can use the search feature to limit the menu to the sales orders menu item. Just like we duplicated the sales orders action to make it easier to create our custom sales order action, duplicate the sales order menu item as a starting point for our new Rush Sales order menu:

Notice how we have changed the name that will appear in the menu and have assigned the Sales Orders - Rush action to this menu. Odoo now knows that when you select the Sales Orders - Rush menu item, the Sales...