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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)

Looking at Odoo's business intelligence features

In addition to powerful search features and dashboards, Odoo also provides a robust business intelligence framework that allows real-time reporting from most applications. You can see an example of Odoo's business intelligence features by opening the Sales application and clicking on Sales under the Reporting heading.

As you can see, by default, Odoo has provided a bar graph of our sales by month. We can then go under Measures to change the data, and the graph displays the following:

Here, we are currently viewing the Untaxed Total measure, but you can change this to any of the other measures for your graph simply by selecting from the list. Let's change the graph to display Qty Ordered instead:

You can see that the description on the right-hand side has changed to show the measure that we have selected. Additionally...