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Learn Odoo

You're reading from   Learn Odoo A beginner's guide to designing, configuring, and customizing business applications with Odoo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789536898
Length 504 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 12 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Your First Application 3. Exploring Customer Relationship Management in Odoo 12 4. Purchasing with Odoo 5. Making Goods with Manufacturing 6. Configuring Accounting - 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. Comparative Analysis of Community versus Enterprise Editions 17. Locating Additional Odoo Resources 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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, for example, you may want to specify the policy number on your sales order. If you are working in property management, you might want to store the date on 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 production begins and when the product should be delivered to the customer.

x_rush

Rush Order

Boolean

Related to Date Required is the...

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