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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 the definition for the Sales order form

Like the other examples in this book, we are going to choose a very common business requirement for this example. Most companies are not going to want to use the default sales order. In fact, after working with hundreds of accounting and ERP systems, I cannot recall any system implementation that involves sales orders where the sales order wasn't customized at some point.

Using what you have learned from the previous chapters, you may wish to bring up a quotation or a sales order and have it ready to print so that you can see your changes as they happen. Any changes you make will modify both the quotation and the sales order, since they share the same QWeb template.

Odoo is quite good at allowing you to use more than one tab in your browser for most operations. I often keep one tab open with the document I want to print and...