Starting with Odoo

 

Who is Odoo ?

 


Odoo S.A. is the software editor of the Business Application Suite called Odoo. Formerly known as OpenERP, Odoo S.A. was founded in 2004 in Belgium by Fabien Pinckaers, its current CEO. The company consists of 250 employees, 6 offices (Belgium, San Francisco, New York, Luxembourg, India and Hong Kong). 

 

What does Odoo do ?

Odoo is a Business Application Suite which you can order "in the cloud" or can run as open source on your own server infrastructure. It consists of following applications:
 

 

How to create a 10 months educational trial environment ?

 
As part of this course, we will be exploring some of the business suite applications within Odoo. To do so, you need a functional test environment. Odoo offers to educational institutions an educational agreement which gives you access to a 10 month test environment. After 10 months, your student data will be deleted - take this in account ! We will be making use of the agreement which exists between Artevelde University College, the teachers home institution and Odoo.
 
 

Creating your first database

 
Your teacher will have created your first database! When this is done, you should receive an activation mail. In case you didn’t receive this email, please contact your teacher. You don’t have much time to accept the invite! The mail looks like this:
 
 
 
You will be prompted to set a password:
 
 
 
You will now see following screen (it is possible you see different apps – this depends on what the teacher has set up for you.) You are administrator for your database, so you wil be able to add yourself extra application and you will be able to modify most settings.
 
 
Please DON’T use Internet Explorer for the remainder of the activities. IE has limitations which are not issue for Firefox or for Chrome. 
 

 
Please DON’T click the “subscribe to keep it running”. If you do this, you loose your for free educational subscription for 10 months, and you will be asked to pay…
 
 
 
 
 

Adding students to your group

 
 
If you want to add students to your team, you can do so yourself:
 
 
  • Click “settings”
  • Type the mail address of the student you want to invite below the “invite new users” title.
  • Hit Invite
 
 

You should now get this:

 

 
 
 
 
Click the name under Pending invitations, in order to further complete his account settings. In the mean time, the person you invited will now receive an account activation mail. He/She needs to click this!

The account settings you can access by clicking the mail address under “Pending invitations” looks like this:
 
 
 
  • First hit the “EDIT” buttion on the top left corner. Now give the student (or your “employee” the correct access rights. Lets take this example:
  • We make him “Sales Manager”, in accounting he can only book, in human resources he is just an amployee, the website he can modified at his will and he can manage the settings for this database.
  • Have also a look at the tab “Preferences”. Please set there the timezone right matchin your location
  • Don’t forget to hit the “SAVE” button on the top left corner, or nothing of your account modifications will be applied!
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Activity step 0: Activate your account

 

 

 

 

 

  • Your teacher will have created an account based upon the subscription list for this lecture. Your teacher has done this 15-16 March 2015.
  • If you haven't received a mail, you probably have registered late for this class. Don't worry: you then just have to find a partner student who did receive the activation email. 
  • Test databases are named edu-ahs-tamk1 till 8. Remember which is yours
  • Click the activation mail
  • Set the pasword
  • Stop using Internet Explorer if you are using that one as browser. Go for Chrome, Firefox, ... You will run into technical problems if you use IE in the next activity steps.
  • Log in at www.odoo.com with your school account and the password you have set, this will bring you into your database.
  • Check if your teammembers have access to the database. You might have to add them yourself. This is the case for late subscribers to this class. You find the description on how to do this in this chapter. Don't forget to give them enough rights!

 

Student list towards database mapping:

Odoo database Mail address
edu-ahs-tamk1 juuso.anttila@biz.tamk.fi 
edu-ahs-tamk2 emilce.kopra@biz.tamk.fi
edu-ahs-tamk3 camille.mallet@biz.tamk.fi
edu-ahs-tamk4 aoi.nagamine@biz.tamk.fi
edu-ahs-tamk5 florin.dimulescu@biz.tamk.fi
edu-ahs-tamk6 tania.ocamponunez@biz.tamk.fi
edu-ahs-tamk7 alina.gutnik@biz.tamk.fi
edu-ahs-tamk8 hee.sohn@biz.tamk.fi