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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)

Understanding the Odoo architecture

Before you can begin to understand Odoo, it is important that you have a basic understanding of the framework and underlying architecture that makes up Odoo applications. Each Odoo application has three primary components that make up the final Odoo application. Fortunately, you don't have to be an expert developer to understand how the Odoo framework fits together. The three components are models, views, and actions.

Models

In the Odoo framework, models are what hold and manage the data that makes up your Odoo application. When you save a sales order in Odoo, the data for the sales order header is stored inside the sale.order model. Individual data items, such as order dates and customer...