Every day that passes I become more convinced that Odoo: The Open Source ERP that's generating buzz! is an excellent alternative for implementation in most SMEs and can have a significant impact on companies with a high volume of users and transactions, making it an ERP that can adapt to any business model quickly, easily, and with high scalability.
What are apps or modules in Odoo 8?
There are several versions of Odoo, currently it is 11, but I particularly use 8 due to the availability of some specific modules for my business model, however, it is recommended to use that version where the technologies and modules are more adapted to your needs , as well as its ability to update.
In all versions of Odoo 8 there is a marketplace of modules that allow to increase or improve the functionalities of the Erp, many of these modules are free and open source, others are private and with different values. Regardless of the nature of the module, these can be installed and activated in a simple way, directly affecting ERP transactions and all related modules.
Odoo modules or apps ( which the organization recognizes as stable ) can be found in Odoo Apps , where you can filter them by the version they are compatible with, their area of ​​impact, their price, and other features that will allow you to find modules that solve the needs of your business.
How to install modules in Odoo 8?
Once we have chosen the module we want to install in our ERP, which we configured in a Debian version following the tutorial Step by step to set up an ERP and CRM for your SME , we proceed to download it from its repository. A .zip file will be downloaded, which we must decompress. The result will be one or more directories with the name of the module.
Then, from our Odoo administrator, we must activate the technical options . To do this, logged in as admin, we go to the user option, choose the administrator user and click on edit, then we select the technical characteristics option and click save.
Now with an SFTP or SSH connection we must copy the directory of the plugin that we downloaded in the directory /opt/openerp/odoo/addons from our server with Odoo, if you are not used to Connect and work on an FTP using the terminal, this can simply be done with an ftp client like filezilla, as shown in the following screenshot.
Following our process to install modules in Odoo 8, we must go back to our Odoo admin menu where a new option to Update list of modules will appear, which when clicking will open a window where we must confirm the update of it. With these steps, Odoo already recognizes the existence of the module.
To install and activate the module in question, we go to the local modules tab, uncheck the filter option corresponding to " Online Applications ", and search for the module using the name of its directory, in our case odoo_web_login , clicking on the install option in the final step.
Now with this we can enjoy third-party modules in Odoo, we can also simply enter the local modules option and install any of the available list of online applications, but most of the time this list of applications is very small compared to the one. shown in the Odoo apps.
The result of activating the module used in the example is simply a new graphical interface for the Odoo Login, as shown below.
