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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

Activating the developer mode


To customize OpenERP, the first step is to activate the developer mode. Once you enter this mode, OpenERP will provide you with a lot more onscreen information as you navigate through the interface. This mode also allows you to make changes to the database and store that information in a file.

To activate the developer mode, go to the menu in the top-right corner of the screen. This menu will have the label of the user you are currently logged in as. In our case, this is the Administrator menu. Choose About OpenERP from the menu.

Once you have entered this screen, you can click on Activate the developer mode to begin customizing OpenERP.

OpenERP recognizes that you are in the developer mode by adding &debug=# to the URL in your web browser. Additionally, OpenERP changes the information that is provided when you move your mouse over various fields in the interface. For example, when viewing a sales order record while in the developer mode, you can move the...