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Working with Odoo

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

With this practical guide, you will cover the essential modules to get Odoo up and running for your company. After installing Odoo, you will use its sales management application to enter quotes, create sales orders, and invoice customers. You will then learn how to integrate the CRM application to manage your leads and convert them into lucrative opportunities and sales. Next, you will set up your own purchase management system, assigning products to suppliers and tracking orders with the new warehouse management and routing system. Finally, you will learn how to use analytics to track project expenses and keep your accounts simple and easy to maintain and build an Odoo module to extend its functionality and make it work for you. Working with Odoo covers all the core installation and usage functionalities of this popular tool, helping you to fully implement a working ERP system through practical, advanced, real-world examples.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Working with Odoo
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 14. Modifying Documents and Reports

Regardless of how great the built-in reports are in any ERP system, it is inevitable that most companies will need to make some custom modifications to the standard documents and reports. Of course, Odoo is no exception. The goal of this chapter is to give the reader a solid introduction to the Odoo reporting framework.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • How to make simple changes to headers and footers of your reports in RML

  • The basic framework of how Odoo organizes reports and forms

  • How to modify and make changes to reports using the new Odoo 8 reporting framework and the QWeb template language

Within Odoo, it is possible to make some changes without modifying the documents themselves. For example, you can change the headers and footers that appear on all your reports throughout the company.

In addition to the older RML format, Odoo 8 includes an all new reporting framework that allows for a lot more flexibility and support for mobile devices as compared...