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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

Chapter 10. Customizing OpenERP for Your Business

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