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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

Working with user access rights and groups


While implementing an ERP system, it is important that you take time to define roles for your users and how they map to the functional job of the employee. The primary reason for including user access rights and groups in a chapter on human resources is that it can be very desirable from a business perspective to have human resources closely involved with both establishing job descriptions and the processes that employees will be working with each day.

Knowing built-in access rights

When you first install OpenERP, the setup process makes certain assumptions about user groups and the various permissions each user has when they are assigned to that group. In Chapter 3, Exploring Customer Relationship Management in OpenERP, we created a sales manager named Mike Zeigler by assigning him to the manager group in sales. This manager group provides Mike with a different level of permissions as compared to a user who is placed in the user group in the sales...