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Protect Odoo 11 database backup with a password

Database auto-backup backup process crashes with a database size > 200 MB and Odoo worker enabled. The module “Database auto-backup” will help you to backup Odoo database on your local disk or remotely on a FTP server through ftp our sftp protocol, however it doesn’t give us the possibility to secure a bit more the backup file generated, therefore I added 2 additional options (Enable password and password) to be able to protect by a password the compressed file by using directly Linux 7z command line and recompressing a 2nd time the file, we should use dump file instead of …

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DKIM Zimbra 8.6

DKIM is an email authentication method designed to detect email spoofing, for more detail : Wiki DKIM, i’m describing in this post how to enable it with Zimbra. Make sure your DKIM has been enabled in your mail server. Add DNS TXT record: 148ERADC-FCE5-11E6-AF44-005A1B26B745._domainkey IN TXT v=DKIM1; k=rsa;p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDg2uVLIssdfsfgu62+c7n0sxugzm8Lpr4A7o7veL4kIeifat2hD53P2KKQTV978HxBTQKrEFByLbG0WZuNracNJU9L5NOKtmYnE7ksxF9ODMKqFK+ltsmM9qkVxbU3xQOVdufDlV2Zk8Ya0WMkYWzKgWIwIDAQAB Test DKIM signature by sending email using this website: http://dkimvalidator.com/

Geektool : Display system information on your MacOS X desktop

If you would like to display system information on your desktop of your Mac OS X, Geektool is the right utility you need. First download and install geektool : https://www.tynsoe.org/v2/geektool/ Open geektool app. Drag and drop Shell on your desktop, and click on command button Paste this code bellow to display your local ip and public ip. But you will need to replace 192.168.101 by your network ip address. Result :

Import xlsx file Odoo 11 – Sales orders

I will describe the basis in python to import xlsx file and how to handle the imported data, in this exemple sales orders is imported. Uploaded file is stored in the variable upload_file and is encoded in base 64, to read it we have to decode first the data by using b64decode function, then save it, for me i chose “/tmp” folder. Result import_data is an array of dictionary as follow [{‘column_name_1’:data_column_1_row_1, ‘column_name_2’:data_column_2_row_1,…},{‘column_name_1’:data_column_1_row_2, ‘column_name_2’:data_column_2_row_2,…},…] Bellow XML view for the importation module.

Edit PDF header – Odoo 11

Edit the format of the address By default with the localization i set for my company, addresses are displayed like this picture bellow: First, you need to enable developper mode through settings, and go to the menu contact -> Configuration -> localization -> countries. Select the country you set on your company settings and click edit. Edit and change the format as your convenience. And here the result.   Edit the format of header/footer Settings are available through the menu: Settings -> General settings -> Document template section: You will be able to customize logo, text position here, click edit …