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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Implementing Leave Management

In addition to managing and approving daily timesheets, it is also possible to install an Odoo Human Resources application that will manage holidays, leave, and other information related to employee time off. We install Leave Management in the same way as we installed the other Odoo applications:

After you have installed the Leave Management application, you will have yet another new menu, the Leaves menu. One departure from earlier editions of Odoo is that now Odoo installs many of the Human Resource applications as separate menus. This leads to having more and more main menus within the Odoo application. Fortunately, however, the menu automatically collapses down into a drop-down list when there is not enough room to display the menu horizontally across the screen:

The primary purpose of this Leave Management application is to provide an easy...