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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)

Using Odoo Studio

Odoo Studio is an Odoo Enterprise-only application that allows you to customize Odoo and even create your own custom applications without creating a Python module, as discussed previously in Chapter 15, Discovering Custom Odoo Modules. There are some pros and cons to using Odoo Studio.

The advantages of using Odoo Studio are as follows:

  • It allows simple changes to Odoo applications without writing Python code.
  • Screen designers make it easy to change the UI without verbose XML code.
  • It prototypes applications in a fraction of the time it would take to create a full Odoo application.
  • Using server actions, you can get close to full-blown Odoo applications.
  • You can import to and export from Odoo Studio, giving you the ability to reuse your work between Odoo Enterprise installations.
  • Modifying the views in Odoo Studio and the capabilities that are available to you...