Introduce new arrivals in Odoo 9.0

Hello Friends,

Here I come to introduce new arrivals in Odoo 9.0,

1. App Grid view:  All top menus (Odoo 8.0) are moved to new view with awesome UI and looks like Mobile apps grid menu.

2. Messaging view : has been redesigned and extended its feature by merging Odoo messaging with Odoo chat service.

3. Messaging view: with inline Odoo chat service.

4. Search view : Compact and Floated.

5. Mail Compose view : Advance HTML controls and more user friendly.

6. Kanban view: More informative within single card.

7. List view : Simple and decent UI with floated 'Action' in sidebar.

8. Form view : Redesigned with 'Smart button' inline and fixed like 'Status bar'.

                        'Help tool tip' is also redesigned.

9. Dashboard : More informative and tried well to provide all information with great UI effect.

10.  Menu: Left menus(Odoo 8.0) are moved at Topbar

11. Take a Tour: for newbie, Odoo 9.0 comes with small tour at relevant action.

12.  Gantt view: New UI

13. Application(s) view: new kanban UI

14. Settings : Dashboard of 'Settings' menu that will more useful for Users for statistics.

Hope this will help you for better understanding while taking a tour of Odoo 9.0

Have a fun ;)

Thanks & Regards,

Ishwar Malvi

Supplier's own Product Code and Name on RFQ, PO and Invoice instead of default product name and code

Hello,

Normally in real life scenarios, all suppliers have their own calling code/name for their supplies products.

Today I am going to show you,

How to use supplier's own product code and name on Purchase Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order

(PO) and Purchase Invoice.

Step 1: Select any product and goto Formview > Procurements > add supplier's information.

Step 2: Here I have added Asustak and configuring it's product code and name.

             Product : Apple In-Ear Headphones

             Supplier : ASUSTek

             Product Code : ASUSE - APPLE-EAR-PHONE

             Product Name : Asus - Apple In-Ear Headphones

Step 3: Create Purchase Quotation (RFQ) with product Apple In-Ear Headphones.

             Product Description field will automatically pop out with Supplier's product code and name.

Step 4: Confirm Quotation and convert to PO. Same Product Description will be used for PO.

Step 5: Transfer PO and Receive Incoming shipments. Now go for supplier's invoice.                        

             Invoice is also pop out with supplier's product code and name.

So here by configuring supplier's product code and name, we will get same effect at RFQ, PO and Invoice.

Have fun :)

Thanks & Regards,

Ishwar Malvi

Autostart Odoo/OpenERP server at System reboots (Ubuntu)

Hello Friends,

Here I am going to show you few easy steps to create a script that will automatically starts your odoo/openerp server when Ubuntu starts (reboots).

Step 1: First of all you need to setup your odoo server by installing odoo packages as well as postgresql database configuration Odoo Installation guide.

Step 2: Once you have done with odoo installation,

            Locate openerp-server.conf file from odoo server files.

                Default path : /opt/openerp/server/install/openerp-server.conf

                Manual Search from terminal:

           locate openerp-server.conf

Step 3: Open file and set following basic parameters for default configuration:

 [options]   
    ; This is the password that allows database operations:   
    ; admin_passwd = admin   
    db_host = False   
    db_port = False   
    db_user = odoo   
    db_password = False   
    dbfilter = .*  
    xmlrpc_port = 8069  
    addons_path = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openerp/addons  
                 ; (Custom addons path can be added and separated by commas (,))  

      
 
Step 4: Check your odoo server is running from above configured openerp-server.conf file.

       Terminal:

           ~/odoo-8.0$ ./odoo.py -c /opt/odoo/server/install/openerp-server.conf

Step 5: Create new script file named odoo-server.sh and place this in path /etc/init.d/

odoo-server.sh

 #!/bin/sh  
 ### BEGIN INIT INFO  
 # Provides:       odoo-server  
 # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog  
 # Required-Stop:    $remote_fs $syslog  
 # Should-Start:     $network  
 # Should-Stop:     $network  
 # Default-Start:    2 3 4 5  
 # Default-Stop:     0 1 6  
 # Short-Description:  Complete Business Application software  
 # Description:     Odoo is a complete suite of business tools.  
 ### END INIT INFO  
 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin  
 DAEMON=/opt/odoo/openerp-server  
 NAME=odoo-server  
 DESC=odoo-server  
 # Specify the user name (Default: odoo).  
 USER=odoo  
 # Specify an alternate config file (Default: /etc/odoo-server.conf).  
 CONFIGFILE="/opt/openerp/server/install/openerp-server.conf"  
 # pidfile  
 PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid  
 # Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.  
 DAEMON_OPTS="-c $CONFIGFILE"  
 [ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0  
 [ -f $CONFIGFILE ] || exit 0  
 checkpid() {  
   [ -f $PIDFILE ] || return 1  
   pid=`cat $PIDFILE`  
   [ -d /proc/$pid ] && return 0  
   return 1  
 }  
 case "${1}" in  
     start)  
         echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "  
         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \  
             --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \  
             --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}  
         echo "${NAME}."  
         ;;  
     stop)  
         echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "  
         start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \  
             --oknodo  
         echo "${NAME}."  
         ;;  
     restart|force-reload)  
         echo -n "Restarting ${DESC}: "  
         start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \  
             --oknodo  
         sleep 1  
         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \  
             --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \  
             --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}  
         echo "${NAME}."  
         ;;  
     *)  
         N=/etc/init.d/${NAME}  
         echo "Usage: ${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2  
         exit 1  
         ;;  
 esac  
 exit 0  

Step 6: to make it executable, we need to give some permission.

      sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo-server

Step 7: Testing the script:

        1. To start odoo server:

            sudo /etc/init.d/odoo-server start



            Once the service is start, check it in browser by typing IP_or_Domain_name:8069

        2. To stop odoo server:



            sudo /etc/init.d/odoo-server stop

Step 8: at last we need to hit one more final command to make odoo-server script activate automatically.




            sudo update-rc.d odoo-server defaults

Step 9: All is setup now. Just reboot the system and open terminal to check whether the odoo service is start automatic.

             ps aux | grep odoo

you will see something like this,

 odoo 15786 0.1 10.6 207132 53596 ? Sl 22:23 0:02 python /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openerp/addons -c /opt/odoo/server/install/openerp-server.conf  

It says that you odoo server is running and you can also check this out from web browser.

Have fun :)

Thanks & Regards,

Ishwar Malvi

Odoo Warehouse Stock Removal Strategy : FIFO, LIFO, FEFO

Odoo Warehouse Stock Removal Strategy : FIFO, LIFO, FEFO

Normally in real time scenarios, there are several products comes with expiry dates like pharmaceutical products, food products etc. It is tedious to manage manually to select that products to sold out based on FIRST EXPIRY FIRST OUT.

Here I am going to show you some of configuration in Odoo that automatically manage your stock based on expiry date/removal date set on product and removal strategy set on warehouse location.

Manage your stock using Removal strategy in Odoo. Some of removal strategy are as follows,

1. First In First Out (FIFO)
2. Last In Last Out (LIFO)
3. First Expiry First Out (FEFO)

I know, Everyone loves Ice Cream and Chocolate, so here I am going to show you demo with Ice Cream as a Product :D

Ice cream comes with expiry date, it should be sold out before it gets outdated and causes health issues to customers.

Ok, Lets begin with First Expiry First Out (FEFO)

Step 1: Here is list of Warehouse locations, you can create your own warehouse location also.

Step 2: Set configuration to make menus visible for 'Serial Numbers' and 'Removal Strategy'

Step 3 : Once you have done with configuration, Removal Strategy field get visible.

Here is three type of Removal Strategy are as follows,

1. First In First Out (FIFO)
2. Last In Last Out (LIFO)
3. First Expiry First Out (FEFO)

Step 4: I am going to set 'First Expiry First Out (FEFO)' Removal Strategy.

Step 5: Lets create a Purchase Quotation > Confirm > Receive Products > Transfer

Step 6: Click on 'Transfer' button, wizard will be pop up. now click on 'Lot/Serial number' field and create Lot of Incoming Shipment to receive product batch wise.

Step 7: Set Desired dates for this Lot : 0000007

           1. Best Before Date

           2. End of Life Date : It is an Expiry date

           3. Removal Date : It should be less then 'End of Life Date' 

           4. Alert Date

Step 8: Transfer the incoming shipment to 'WH/Stock' Location

Step 9: follow step 5,6,7. create second incoming shipment Lot : 0000008

           Set Desired dates for this Lot : 0000008

             1. Best Before Date

             2. End of Life Date : It is an Expiry date

             3. Removal Date : It should be less then 'End of Life Date'

             4. Alert Date

Step 10: Now we are going to sale this imported product from our location 'WH/Stock' where the removal strategy has been configured.

              Create Sale Quotation > Confirm > View Delivery Order

Step 11: Click on 'Check Availability' button, Odoo will reserve Quants based on Removal strategy on warehouse location.

Step 12: Here we go :)

              Click on move line, you can see the Reserved Quants details. product quantity has been selected from Lot 0000008 due to following removal date and expiry date,

             Product Lot        Lot 0000007         Lot 0000008

             Removal Date    08/28/2015            08/13/2015

             Expiry Date       08/31/2015            08/15/2015

            i.e : Lot 0000008 is a batch having earliest expiry date

You can select FIFO or LIFO removal strategy as per your requirements.

Have fun :)

Thanks & Regards,

Ishwar Malvi

Twitter Integration in Odoo

Twitter Integration in Odoo

Every organizations are using twitter nowadays to promote their products as well as group discussion. so instead of managing separate window to get active for tweets , odoo comes with twitter integration.

Odoo provides Twitter Roller in Frontend (Website), that rolling tweets for a single channel continuously.

Here I come with easy steps for twitter integration,

Step 1: Install website_twitter Module.

Step 2 : Once we have done with module installation, navigate to Website.

             Click on Edit then place twitter roller snippet in webpage where ever you want to see the tweets.

             Click on Twitter Configuration URL. It will allow to do some configuration to connect Twitter Account with Odoo.

Step 3: Here we need to place some secret keys to connect Twitter API

            Goto : https://apps.twitter.com/app/new

Step 4: We need to create Twitter Application to get secret keys for connect twitter api from Odoo.

Step 5: I have created a Demo Application, you can check I got my secret keys that I highlighted below.

            Just simply copy and paste following secret keys to odoo website setting,

1. API Key
2. API Secret

Step 6: Just simply copy and paste following secret keys to odoo website setting,

1. API Key
2. Secret Key
3. Channel [It is # (hashtag) channels like (#Odoo, #Funworld etc.)]
   I.e Odoo (without # symbol)

Step 7: Here we go :D :)

            All the tweets are rolling here from left to right, you can select any of them by simple mouse hover.

           You can retweet and comment by click on that. It will redirect you on twitter.

Have fun :)

Thanks & Regards,

Ishwar Malvi

Email Signature with Logo, Link etc.

[Mail] Allow html in signature (to add logo, link, ...)

1. Added button Attachment Icon.

2. On Click “Attachment Icon” button popup window will appear to upload an image.

3. Email with Attached Icon.

Thanks & Regards,
Ishwar Malvi