Business Example Basic Settings

73 After a short delay you are connected to the new openerp_ch03 database as user adminwith the password you gave it. You will have to go through the Setup wizard in steps: When you click on the button Skip Configuration Wizard, you can have the following screen. Then you can start working with this minimal database. Figure 8.3: Starting the minimal database If you click on the Start Configuration button then OpenERP helps you to install various applications with different functionality through the following wizard. Figure 8.4: Configuring a database with other applications and functionality when you select Extended view option

8.4 Fit your Needs

All of the functional needs are provided by core modules from Open ERP. You need to just decide which function- ality you want in your system. Click on the Check Box of corresponding application in the wizard Configuration wizard used to install the required applications when you select the Simplified view option . For the instance, we need following application. • product management the product module, • inventory control the stock module, • accounting and finance the account module, • purchase management the purchase module, • sales management the sale module. 74 For that the configuration wizard should be like this. Figure 8.5: Configuration wizard used to install the required applications when you select the Simplified view option After the follow through the complete wizard you can have the system that can perform all required functionality. Figure 8.6: Database with all required functionality for this example If you want to reconfigure your system then click on the Reconfigure link appeared in the header of Database with all required functionality for this example .

8.5 Database setup

You will create all the elements in the database that you need to carry out the use case. These are specified in the functional requirements.

8.5.1 Configuring Accounts

You need to start off with a minimal set of accounts, and to do that you will need a couple of account types. You can structure your accounts into a chart at any time and, in fact, you can structure them into several additional charts at the same time as you will see in the chapter Configuring Accounts from A to Z , so you do not need to be concerned unduly about structure.