In this chapter we will begin covering one of the greatest advantages of OpenERP: the ability to customize the software to meet the unique needs of your business. Fortunately, OpenERP provides a great deal of flexibility in which you can customize OpenERP without writing any code or developing a module. We will begin by learning how to activate the OpenERP developer mode and then back up our database. This is a very important practice when customizing OpenERP. After that, we will learn how to add fields to our database and display them on forms and views.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
Getting in and out of the developer mode
Backing up our database
Restoring data from a backup
Appending custom fields to models
Displaying our newly added fields upon forms and list views