Adding a custom field to Odoo

One of the most common reasons for customizing Odoo is to collect additional information that is specific to your company. If you are running an insurance company, perhaps you want to specify the policy number on your sales order. If you are working in property management, perhaps you would like to store the date in which the lease agreement will expire.

For our working example, we will be adding fields that will help us better manage the data and processes for our silkscreen company. Specifically, we will be adding the following fields to the sales order header:

Field name	Label	Field type	Purpose
x_daterequired	Date Required	Date	In the screen printing industry, deadlines drive when the production must begin and when the product should be delivered to the customer.
x_rush	Rush Order	Boolean	The necessity to flag some sales orders as rush orders is related to Date Required. A Rush Order label can then be prioritized and given expedited...