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POS order to quotation in Odoo 9

Odoo 9 community does not have a button to generate from the POS (Point of Sale) Order a quotation (Sales Order), here is the following code of my module pos_2_so. Folders arborescence will have as sub folders :  model, view, static, ref the print screen : We will start by adding a new button on the interface of the pos, in the folder static/src/xml/, we create a new file named pos_2_so.xml. Bellow is its QWeb xml code : This portion of code creates a template named pos2sopad which include only a button : We need to set a placeholder by adding …

Add xlsx support in scheduled outgoing email – Odoo 11

Download updated report_xlsx module Report_xlsx module adds xlsx report support to Odoo with xlsxwriter python library. However when trying to send an email with a xlsx report attached. I got this error message: “Unsupported report type xlsx found”. Mail module handles only PDF document as attachement, to add xlsx type support, we have to make some modification on report_xlsx module by inheriting mail.template model and overriding generate_email method, you’ll find the code bellow, customized report_xlsx module is downloadable above or by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page. Updated report_xlsx module for Odoo 11 community is available …

Additional measure in Odoo graph view

  This article will help you to add measures in graph view, my exemple is based on sale order model, for all additional computed fields, attribute store must be set to True, otherwise you won’t be able to choose it from the dropdown list measure in graph view. When grouping, you might want to calculate on some fields the average instead of the sum, if so, you need to use group_operator = ‘avg’ directly in your model file, see margin_percent field bellow. Find the view_id of your graph view and inherit from it. then place your new field as measure …

Problem with Godaddy VPS upgrade

I recently had a problem with Godaddy ubuntu 16.04 VPS, after updating and upgrading the system: SSH port wasn’t anymore reachable, it’s the only access we have to the server, however other services are working normally, so the system is still running. I tried many times to restart, call the support, but it didn’t solve the problem. The only solution was to destroy the server and rebuild it from scratch + restoration of backups. I’ve also tested the upgrade with a clean and freshly installed system, same issue occurred. If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 VPS on Godaddy, Do not upgrade …

Linux

Odoo 9 Linux bash backup script

Bash backup odoo script is available on GitHub for Odoo 8 and 11. This bash script will help you to backup Odoo database, set a password on the backup file and remove files older than 7 days. You’ll need curl and 7zip linux package to make it work. This example is backing up od11-01 and od11-02 databases. It’s not really optimized with the double compression. BACKUP_DIR=/opt/backup ODOO_DATABASES="od11-01 od11-02" ADMIN_PASSWORD="ODOO_DATABASE_MANAGER_PASSORD" FILE_PASSWORD="ZIP_FILE_PASSWORD" TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S` for DB in ${ODOO_DATABASES} do # create a backup curl -X POST \ -F "master_pwd=${ADMIN_PASSWORD}" \ -F "name=${DB}" \ -F "backup_format=zip" \ -o ${BACKUP_DIR}/${DB}/${DB}.${TIMESTAMP}.zip \ http://localhost:8069/web/database/backup 7z a …

Linux

Cannot install and start Samba on Debian 8

After executing the install command bellow : root@backup:/etc# apt-get install samba I got this error message: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Suggested packages: bind9 bind9utils ctdb ldb-tools ntp smbldap-tools winbind The following NEW packages will be installed: samba 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,031 kB of archives. After this operation, 11.7 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package samba. (Reading database … 64944 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/samba_2%3a4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u9_amd64.deb … Unpacking samba (2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u9) … Processing …