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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

Alternative reporting systems


OpenERP does a pretty good job of providing basic reports but unfortunately, many companies will require more extensive reporting capabilities than OpenERP provides. Furthermore, the standard tools built into OpenERP to create reports are limited. For example, some things that you would assume would be very simple, such as repeating column headers on multiple pages, can be frustrating if not impossible. Fortunately, there are a variety of reporting solutions that work well with OpenERP.

OpenERP Webkit Report

One option that adds a lot of flexibility and integrates very tightly with OpenERP is the OpenERP Webkit Report built by Camp2Camp. It is a standard module that can be installed easily just like the other built-in modules in OpenERP.

Once you install the Webkit Report Engine application, you will have two new menu options appear under Settings as follows:

  • Webkit Logos

  • Webkit Headers/Footers

These options allow you to define multiple headers and footers that...