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Working with Odoo 11

You're reading from   Working with Odoo 11 Configure, manage, and customize your Odoo system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788476959
Length 474 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Greg Moss Greg Moss
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Odoo 11 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Your First Application 3. Exploring CRM in Odoo 11 4. Purchasing with Odoo 5. Making Goods with Manufacturing Resource Planning 6. Configuring Accounting and Finance Options 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. Discovering Custom Odoo Modules 16. Comparing Community and Enterprise Edition 17. Another Book You May Enjoy

Understanding actions

We've already seen how we can modify views and create custom search criteria, so you should be well on your way to making customizations that are quite useful. At some point, however, when you wish to create a new view or a specific type of filter, you are going to need to understand actions so that you can change the way an Odoo application behaves.

As we learned earlier, we can use actions to trigger views. Let's begin by taking a look at the list of actions that are already in your Odoo installation. While in developer mode, under the Settings menu, under Actions, choose Window Actions. You will be presented with a list, as shown in the following screenshot:

Window Actions

In the previous screenshot, we filtered the list of actions to only those named sales order. Let's now create our own custom rush order action that will allow us to create...

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