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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

Looking at an OpenERP workflow in detail


The workflow that we have been currently studying is a summarized view of the actual workflow that OpenERP utilizes to carry out the different processes. The developer view of the workflow describes the conditions to determine the various document states and how each process should be handled. To understand a workflow, it is important to recognize exactly what a workflow can accomplish in OpenERP.

In OpenERP, a workflow can:

  • Modify the states or stages that a document is currently in

  • Determine what conditions or states in a document are required to execute a process

  • Make process decisions based on user roles and access privileges

  • Create subworkflows to encapsulate complexity

OpenERP also provides a very nice visual workflow designer that allows you to both analyze workflows as well as make some limited modifications. I am specifically stating limited modifications as you will likely need to have at least some experience in OpenERP development if you are...