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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)

Leave management

In addition to managing and approving daily timesheets, it is also possible to install an Odoo HR application that will manage holidays, leave, and other information related to employee time off. When we installed the timesheet module, Odoo automatically installed Leaves as a dependency. You can confirm it is installed just by going to Apps and looking at it:

The primary purpose of the Leaves hr_holidays application is to provide an easy mechanism for employees to request leave and for their managers to approve or deny the request.

Creating a leave request

When you click on the Leaves menu option, you are taken to a monthly calendar that will show you your current leave requests. Naturally, if there were...