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Working with Odoo

You're reading from   Working with Odoo Learn how to use Odoo, a resourceful, open source business application platform designed to transform and modernize your business

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394554
Length 432 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Moss Greg Moss
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Odoo FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Your First Application 3. Exploring Customer Relationship Management in Odoo 4. Purchasing with Odoo 5. Making Goods with Manufacturing Resource Planning 6. Configuring Accounting Finance 7. Administering an Odoo Installation 8. Implementing the Human Resources Application 9. Understanding Project Management 10. Creating Advanced Searches and Dashboards 11. Building a Website with Odoo 12. Implementing E-Commerce with Odoo 13. Customizing Odoo for Your Business 14. Modifying Documents and Reports 15. Understanding Workflows 16. Discovering Custom Odoo Modules A. Locating Additional Odoo Resources Index

Creating a new employee


Clicking on the Create button will bring up the form for you to begin entering a new employee into Odoo:

The only required field in the employee form is Name. All the other fields are optional. Odoo will default the working address to the company address. While most fields are self-explanatory, we will go over several of the more important fields to take into consideration.

Related User

In the Contact information section, the Related User field will allow you to associate the employee with an existing user account in Odoo. Simply select the user from the pop-up list and choose which user you want associated with the employee. It is also possible to add users on the fly by choosing Create… from the Related User dropdown.

Department

The employee's department is a common way for a company to organize employees. In our example, we are going to create a production department.

In this screen, we have set the Department Name field to Production and set the Manager field of this...

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