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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 more about the power of QWeb templates

Now that we have learned to make that small change, let's look a little closer at how Odoo is able to use the exact same template for both the quotation and the sales order. In fact, you may have already figured out how Odoo does this from looking at the code we modified a little bit.

One of the best things you can do to learn how to modify reports is to look at existing reports within Odoo and see how they accomplish what you wish to accomplish. When you're trying to solve a problem, see if you can find another report in Odoo that is already doing something similar to what you want.

It is often a lot easier to copy and paste part of a template you need and then change it rather than trying to get all the <./?> syntax straight and just right. It's easier if you are working from a reference point.
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