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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)

Learning how Odoo organizes reports

Unfortunately, the ability to edit the header and footer of the company information doesn't get you very far. If you spend time with Odoo, it is inevitable that the time will come when you need to make changes to specific Odoo documents. For example, a company may need to customize their quotation or sales order to make it more visually attractive to their customers. Perhaps a company would like to change the appearance of their invoice or the picking ticket they use to pull products from the inventory.

However, before you can start modifying reports or adding new reports, it is important that you have an overall understanding of how reports are organized within Odoo. First, make sure that you have activated developer mode, as you learned to do in the previous chapter.

With developer mode active, you can get access to the reports within...