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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 13. Discovering Custom OpenERP Modules

While OpenERP has a lot of built-in and community modules, it is inevitable that there will be quite a few businesses that will have requirements which will be difficult to achieve with the currently available modules. The OpenERP framework offers developers the capability of extending OpenERP to accomplish business objectives and (hopefully) make OpenERP fit in better with the workflow of the company. It is important, however, before attempting to write custom OpenERP modules that you completely understand the functionality of OpenERP and the various modules that are available in the community.

Through careful configuration, many business objectives can be achieved without writing custom modules. It is important to make sure that before you go down the path of writing custom OpenERP modules, that you make absolutely sure that the business requirements are clear and you have thoroughly explored all the options available inside OpenERP. There...