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Learn Odoo

By : Greg Moss
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Learn Odoo

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is management software that contains a set of open source enterprise management applications that help you modernize your business. Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive Odoo guide is a fourth edition of Working with Odoo. This book begins with an introduction to Odoo and helps you set up Odoo Online in your system. You'll learn how to start a new company database in Odoo and the basics of Odoo sales management. You will explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. Moving on, you'll learn how to install the purchasing application, set up suppliers, and begin purchasing and receiving products in Odoo. Next, you'll learn how to use the MRP module to create, process, and schedule the manufacturing and production order. Once you get to grips with the basic applications, you'll uncover how to customize Odoo to meet the specific needs of your business. You'll learn some advanced techniques for searching and finding information, and you'll be taken through business intelligence in Odoo. Towards the end of the book, you'll go in-depth into Odoo's architecture and learn to use Odoo's API to integrate with other applications. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to use Odoo to build enterprise applications and set up the functional requirements for your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

New demonstration data in Odoo 12

Odoo 12 now comes with new and improved demonstration data. This data is for a fictional company that sells both office furniture and interior design services, thereby providing examples of each type of product—that is, consumable and service products. Even the Discuss area under each quotation, sales order, invoice, and product already contains a log of when each item was created and by whom. In short, the demo data for Odoo 12 is more well thought out, thorough, and logical than in prior versions of Odoo.

In Odoo 12, you can now load demo data even after your database has been created. Simply go to Settings and activate the developer mode. Then, return to Settings once more, and you'll see a link in the bottom-right corner that reads Load demo data. It will warn you that, once added, the demo data cannot be removed. So, make sure...