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68 Figure 7.13: Workflow for a Purchase Order Alongside the document management system, the process visualization features make OpenERP far better for documentation than similar systems. 7.5.13 Need more? You have been guided through a brisk, brief overview of many of the main functional areas of OpenERP. Some of these – a large proportion of the core modules – are treated in more detail in the following chapters. You can use the menu Administration → Modules → Modules to find the remaining modules that have been loaded into your installation but not yet installed in your database. Some modules have only minor side-effects to OpenERP such as google_maps, some have quite extensive effects such as the various charts of accounts, and some make fundamental additions. But there are now more than hundred modules available. You can install them according to your needs. A brief description is available for each module, but the most thorough way of understanding their functionality is to install one and try it. So, pausing only to prepare another test database to try it out on, just download and install the modules that appear interesting.

7.5.14 Tips Tricks

Overview of Shortcut Keys • Shortcuts for OpenERP Shortcut Key What does it do? Ctrl+H Contextual Help Ctrl+O Connect Ctrl+Q Quit • Shortcuts for OpenERP Form Shortcut Key What does it do? Ctrl+D Delete Ctrl+F Find Ctrl+G Go To Resource ID Ctrl+L Switch to ListForm Ctrl+N New Ctrl+P Preview in PDF Ctrl+Page Down Next Tab Ctrl+Page Up Previous Tab Ctrl+R ReloadUndo Ctrl+S Save Ctrl+T Menu Ctrl+W Close Tab Page Down Next Page Up Previous Shift+Ctrl+D Duplicate Shift+Ctrl+H New Home Tab Shift+Ctrl+Y Repeat latest action 69 • Shortcuts for OpenERP when editing a resource in a popup window Shortcut Key What does it do? Ctrl+Enter Save and Close window Ctrl+Esc Close window without Saving • Shortcuts in relation field Shortcut Key What does it do? F1 Add new FieldLine on the fly F2 Look up information F3 Zoom on current field • Shortcuts in text entries Shortcut Key What does it do? Ctrl+C Copy selected text Ctrl+V Paste selected text Ctrl+X Cut selected text Enter Auto-complete text field Shift+Tab Previous editable widget Tab Next editable widget Filters The Advanced Search View is a new feature of OpenERP v6 which provides a very user-friendly filtering mecha- nism for the end user to easily look up desired records from the list. The perfect example of an advanced search view is the Statistical Report of OpenERP. Such a report shows the statistical summary with filtered results to the end user. Usually an Advanced Search is composed of three elements, the Filter buttons at the top, the Extended Filters, and the Group by option. These filters are dynamic, so according to filters you apply, extra columns may be added to the view. You can also easily combine filters; an arrow will be displayed and you will get a structure according to the order in which you clicked the Filter buttons. Let’s show an example. The statistical report for project tasks is Task Analysis which can be displayed using the menu Project → Reporting → Tasks Analysis when you have installed the Project Management module. Figure 7.14: Task Analysis You can see the Advanced Search View in the light green shaded area. You can filter the information of a task according to the Group by features. Click for instance the Stage button in Group by, and then click Task to analyse your tasks by stage and then by task. This Advanced Search View can also be attached to any List View of an object and hence increase the search facility when a user looks up the record in list view.