Tag: Tutorial

How to Configure the Print Button Access Right in Odoo

Based on my experience as an odoo programmer so far, many client requests are related to access rights. For example, user A can perform X action while user B can’t, including print button access right. This is the reason why I create this print button access right module. Odoo itself has many reports, almost every ….  Read More

How to Configure the Menu Item in Odoo

Menu item is an odoo’s view in the form of buttons, icons, links, dropdowns etc. Which if we click it we will be redirected to another page or form. This is an example of a menu item on the odoo home page. Where is the Menu Item Stored ? Menu items are stored in the ….  Read More

What is External ID in Odoo ?

When you work with odoo, have you ever had any questions about what is an External ID ? Like when you are going to export some data, for example the customer as shown below ? Or when you edit a form. What exactly is an External ID ? And what does it do ? Basically ….  Read More

How to Give a Customer Portal Access in Odoo

Odoo has a customer portal module, with this module, our customers can log in to our odoo website and view their transactions. In the customer portal, customers can view their unprocessed sale orders, completed delivery orders, unpaid invoices and other information. Customers can also download their transaction documents such as invoices, and communicate with us ….  Read More

How to Use a Transient Model in Odoo

Transient model is a model in odoo where its data will be deleted periodically. Since the data will always be deleted, of course it is not recommended to use this model to store the real data. Usually, this model is used as a wizard or as a connector between several models, for example to show ….  Read More

How to Use System Parameter to Store the Application Configuration in Odoo

System parameter in odoo is a model with a key value pair format that is used to store the application configuration. System parameter are only used to store the configuration, the real implementation must be manually programmed in each model as needed. The model of the system parameter is a ir.config_parameter. System parameter are usually ….  Read More

How to Use Onchange and Compute in Odoo

In odoo there are 2 ways of how to calculate the value of a field automatically. We can use the onchange decorator or the compute field parameter. Use the onchange decorator if we want the value of some field change automatically when the value of another field is changed by the user. For example, let’s ….  Read More

How to Set Up a Sequence or Document Number in Odoo

Each transaction, it can be a Sales Order, a Purchase or an Invoice, usually has a unique document number to distinguish one document from another. In odoo the document numbering is very easy. We can adjust the document numbering format through the Settings > Technical > Sequences & Identifiers > Sequences menu, then find the ….  Read More

Understanding Large Framework Source Code Better With GREP

grep is a tool to find text in files. For example, if we have 1000 files, if we want to know what files that contain the word of “indonesia”, using grep we can find it easily. grep is a tool that runs via the command line or terminal. Usually grep is among the default application ….  Read More

How to Create an Action Server in Odoo

Action Server or more precisely ir.actions.server is an action in odoo which allows us to call python code from the user interface. Actually Action Server has many options, but I think the most useful option in real life is the Execute Python Code. This option has functionality similar to a button with an object type ….  Read More