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Purchase Amendment Module: Modify confirmed purchase orders

In openERP, once a purchase order is confirmed we can not modify it anymore. Purchase amendment module enables the provision to make some changes like increase or decrease in product quantity,unit price etc in a confirmed Purchase order.  But we can edit tne order lines only when no payments are done and the products are not fully recieved.

Lets see how this module works,

Here i am creating a new purchase order with 2 products, and i have confirmed it,

Getting Things Done (project_gtd) - Time Management Module

One of the modules provided by OpenERP to improve your time management is ‘project_gtd’. This blog is an elaboration of OpenERP’s official documentation about the same module.

OpenERP’s project_gtd module was inspired by two books focussing on efficient time management:
 

Audit Trail: Module in OpenERP and its usage

In a  Business organisation, there will be number of users. So it is a tedious task to keep track of their operations for the admin. So for that, Open ERP is providing a facility in the form of a module. The module name is Audit Trail. With the help of this module, the administrator can keep track of any operations performed on a particular, with some conditions specified. Here in this blog we are going to discuss about the usage and application of Audit trail module in Open ERP.

Sales Analysis Report

Are you interested in getting the sales details of your firm from anywhere you go . If you want to check out the trend of your business for a month or in the current year, if you need the sales details of particular product or category at the moment in a precise way, OpenERP provides these functionalities with analysis report and graph views.

  Analysis reports are used for creating dynamic reports in OpenERP. The advantages of analysis reports are:

OpenERP 7 Integration with USPS using stamp.com

USPS is one of the providers of the shipping services. USPS services are used by majority of the users of OpenERP. USPS can be integrated with the delivery of OpenERP to manage delivery form OpenERP itself.

We have created a module that helps us manage shipping through USPS from OpenERP itself. We have archived it by using the stamp.com API. stamp.com is a vendor of the USPS stamps and it provides ways to ship any kind packages and print stamps/shipment labels for that package. To integrate OpenERP with stamp.com API, we need some basic things. They are:

Stock Closing Module - Trace where your stocks getting wrong !!!

Do you want to trace out where your stock values going wrong in your ERP?

Facing issues because of the stock problems in your Business ?
Then this module may help you ...
We have developed this module (for open-erp version - 6.1) for comparing the physical stock with the system stock daily and trace out the stock violation.

 I am just giving an introduction on how this module works

Stock Closing part by Shop User

OpenERP 7 Keyboard Shortcut

OpenERP 7 has made the menu navigation easier with the new user interface. But for a user, if he has made a sale order and need to view all the invoices in the system, he has to go to the main menu Invoicing and then select Customer Invoice / Supplier Invoice to view the invoice. It would be better to have a keyboard shortcut which help in easy navigation with the press of some buttons.

Asset Management in OpenERP

OpenERP uses account_asset module for managing an organization's assests, it helps you to Manage the assets owned by your company and keep track of depreciation occurred on those assets. This module also create  account entries based on the depreciation lines

Asset Management module in OpenERP provide the following fuctionality:

OpenERP 7 Web Color Theme

One of the main feature of OpenERP 7 is the extend of the customization that can be done on both frontend and backend. But for a normal user to do some basic customization on the frontend of the OpenERP, he must have some knowledge in CSS and JavaScript. But in most of the cases the end user who uses the OpenERP will not have much knowledge in those fields.

Menu Level security In OpenERP V7

Many of our customer reported a security issue in OpenERP through web browser. If we copy a Url from Admin, and login as another user, where that menu restricted, the restricted user will be able access that pages and work on it. This is an OpenERP issues, where the menus are only “hidden” and not “restricted” to users. This can be a security issue if the pages are registred in search engines or If someone who is expert in OpenERP access the data.