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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

Creating a new business application using Odoo Studio


The job of Odoo Studio does not end with adding new fields, or changing the views. Using Odoo Studio you can create a new application from scratch without being a developer. Using Odoo Studio you can create beautiful application, design awesome reports, customize advanced screens, automate business workflows, and the great things are everything you developed using studio is also accessible on Odoo mobile.

Getting ready

It is assumed that you have a clear specification for the new application you are going to develop. I am going to develop the module, Odoo Academy app, I have to create a course, a new model, for student and teacher, and I will use the existing model, Partner (res.partner).

Note

The best approach to customization is to duplicate the database each time and implement the feature. Export the customization and import into the master.

How to do it...

  1. Go to your instance home page, enter into studio mode by clicking on the customization...