Instal custom modules in odoo

Instal custom modules in odoo

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  www.cybrosys.com How to installcustom modules in odoo
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  INTRODUCTION  We allknow odoo community is a open source complete ERP for a business. Why we prefer Odoo as our business management software?. There are multiple plus points for choosing odoo and the one of the major point is Odoo is a open source software.  Actually odoo is a generic product that contain all the basic workflows that needed for a common business like Trading business, shopping sectors, Restaurants, Point of sales, Supermarkets and other common business. Then how can we make odoo as a best ERP software that adapt all the business flows in our company. Yes.! We need to customize it.
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   For achiveyour requirements you can customize in two ways.  We can use Custom modules  We can edit viva Front end.  We all know Odoo have very good store for the products. We can check it here (https://apps.odoo.com/apps/modules)
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   We cansee 13000+ apps in the store. And Day by day the number of contributions will become huge. The Odoo community is a large scale community and activities and performances are very high and fast.
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   You cansearch and find the best app that suit to your business and achieve your requirements.
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   From thetop we can see Categories, Free or Paid, versions. When you finds a module that perfect for your business then first check the versions. Version of Odoo and apps version must be same. If you find a paid module in apps store just search same featured app as free. Many of the paid app’s features available as free apps too.
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   Finally youfind an app, then just download it by clicking the download button.
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   Must checkthe version is compatible or not.  Now we get a perfect app for our business, then how can we include to our odoo.
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   After downloadingit we can get a .zip file. You can extract it then you can get a folder contain __init__.py , __openerp__.py or __manifest__.py and other files.  You just copy the file and paste it in the folder(addons) of odoo.
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   We cancreate a custom addon folder here. sudo mkdir /../../odoo/<custom_addons> sudo chown -R odoo:odoo /../../odoo/<custom_addons>  Now you can add the custom_addons path in the config file. sudo nano /etc/odoo.conf (provide the exact path of the config file)
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  [options] ……………………. ……………………. addons_path = /../../odoo/addons,/../../odoo/<custom_addons> • Edit the addons_path and add your custom addon paths. • You can past your new app into this custom_addons folder. sudo scp -r <custom module>// root@<ip_address>:/../../odoo/<custom_addons>/
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   After pastethe module do not forget to restart your server.  sudo service odoo-server restart  Then you can go to your odoo home page  <ip address>:8069/web
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  Then follow thesteps.. ● Activate developer mode. ➢ In Odoo V8 and V9 click on the right top Administration menu. ➢ Click on About odoo
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  ➢ Click onactivate the developer mode.
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  ➢ In OdooV10 and V11 Go to Settings  Activate the developer mode.
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  ● Then updatethe module list by click the update button ➢ Odoo V8 • We can these menus under settings main menu. ➢ Odoo V9, V10 and V11
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  ➢ This optionis available In ‘apps’ Menu
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   Now yourmodule is ready to install. Go to the apps and search your module, avoid the “apps” filter from the search bar.  Please note one important point, some custom modules may cause crash the DB or make some conflicts and show errors. So before install the new module just take a backup file. After the backup of the database search your custom module name and install it. And test it.
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  Refer this linkfor more: https://www.cybrosys.com/blog/how-to-install-custom-modules-in-odoo
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