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ODOO APPLICATION FOR

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
USER GUIDE
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CONTENTS

1. Introduction ................................................................................................................3

2. How to login ................................................................................................................3

3. Basis usage ...................................................................................................................4

3.1 How to set up & configure a project ..............................................................4

3.2 How to manage a project task ........................................................................9

3.3 How to collaborate on task .............................................................................12

4. Planning your project.................................................................................................15

4.1 How to plan and track employee’s assignment .............................................15

5. Task Analysis ..............................................................................................................20

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1. Introduction

Odoo is an open source application for project management, human resource,

purchase, and manufacturing… In this user guide will be focused how to use Odoo

project management application. This included three main parts which consisted

configuration and basic usage, planning and Advance functions. First part is a guiding of

basic setting up, management and collaboration may task with Odoo application. Next part

will be described how to plan/track employment’s assignment in term of project. Last part is

to implement and develop several advance functions of Odoo such as gathering feedback

from other people or participants.

2. How to login

In order to login and reach the main Odoo webpage:

1. Go to website: https://www.odoo.com/trial

2. Please note that you can use free with one Apoo application with Unlimited Users.

3. Select Odoo Project button as

4. And then, you must fill the information as below. Next, click Start Now to using

Odoo Project Management application.

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Note: You should use your working email to sign in this application. Because your e-mail

will be used to assign tasks and missions to concerned people. You can create many

projects with your email to working on Odoo Project Management.

3. Basic Usage

3.1 How to set up & configure a project

a. Installing the Project module

Open the Apps module, search for Project Management, and click on Install.
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After that, from this stage you totally can you all functions of Odoo Project.

b. Creating a new project

Open the Project application, and click on Create. From this window, you can specify

the name of the project and set up the privacy of the project.

The privacy setting works with three options as below:

 Customer Project: visible in portal if the customer is a follower.

 All Employees: employees see all tasks or issues.

 Private Project: followers can see only the followed tasks or issues

You can also specify if the project is destined to a customer, or leave the Customer field

empty if not.

When you have entered all the required details, click on Save as picture below:
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c. Manage your project's stages

Add your project's task. You can add more tasks for concerned people. Click on #Tasks

on your project dashboard.

In the new window, add a new column and name it according to the first stage of your

project, then add as many columns as there are stages in your project.
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For each stage, you can modify and add some functions for each stage through 2 buttons

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If you click on edit button, and then a new window will open. The color dots and star

icon correspond to customizable markers applied on tasks, making it easier to know what

task requires attention. You can give them any signification you like.

Click on Save when you are done.

d. Rearrange stages

You can easily personalize this view to better suit your business needs by creating new

columns. From the Kanban view of your project, you can add stages by clicking on Add

new column. If you want to rearrange the order of your stages, you can easily do so by

dragging and dropping the column you want to move to the desired location. You can

also fold or unfold your stages by using the Setting icon on your desired stage.
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3.2 How to manage a project task

This section will be focused on visualize project task on Odoo Project application such as

creating and updating the information on the task configuration.

a. Creating Tasks

Once you created a project, you can easily

generate tasks for it. Simply open the project

and click on create a task.

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You then first give a name to your task, the related project will automatically be filled in,

assign the project to someone, and select a deadline if there is one. Please note that you

can add someone on your projects with their email and exactly date to working.

b. How to notify your concerned people about the status of a task?

Sort tasks by priority

On each one of your columns, you have the ability to sort your

tasks by priority. Tasks with a higher priority will be

automatically moved to the top of the column. From the

Kanban view, click on the star in the bottom left of a task to tag
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it as high priority. For the tasks that are not tagged, Odoo will automatically classify

them according to their deadlines.

Note that dates that passed their deadlines will appear in red (in the list view too) so you

can easily follow up the progression of different tasks.

You also can check the deadline date as well as the task for your staffs
through #

3.3 How to collaborate on task

a. Document Management in tasks

This section will indicate how to add a document or image on Odoo project task.

- You can add an image/document to your task by clicking on the Attachment tab on

the top of the form.

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- You can add an image/document to your task through the Chatter. You can log a

note/send a message and attach a file to it. Or if someone sends an email with an

attachment, the document will be automatically saved in the task.

b. Tasks states
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- Set the state of a task

You can change the status of the task from the kanban view or directly from the task. Just

click on the status ball to get the choices:

- Custom states

You can decide what the different

status mean for each stage of your

project. On the kanban view, click

on the gear icon on the top of the

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stage, and then click on edit:

After that, you can add more information as picture below:

- Color Tags

In every task, you can add a tag. Tags are very useful to categorize the tasks. It helps you

to highlight a task from the Kanban view or better find them thanks to the filters.

If you are always working with a specific type of tag, you can highlight the tasks

containing the tag with the colors. Each tag can get a specific color, it's very visual on the

Kanban view.
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In order to make it appear on the kanban view, you have to set a color on the tag, directly

from the task:

4. Planning your project

4.1. How to plan and track employee’s assignment

a. Manage tasks with views

You can have an overview of your different task thanks to the multiple views available

with Odoo. Three main views will help you to plan and follow up on your employees’

tasks including the kanban view, the list view (using timesheets) and the calendar view.
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Get an overview of activities with the kanban view

There are many stages to you change and make the different with kanban view. It enables

you to have a clear view on the stages your tasks are in and the ones having the higher

priorities. The Kanban view is the default view when accessing a project, but if you are

on another view, you can go back to it any time by clicking the kanban view logo in the

upper right corner.

Add/rearrange stages

You can easily personalize your project to suit your operation needs by creating new

columns. From the Kanban view of your project, you can add stages by clicking on Add

new column (see image below). If you want to rearrange the order of your stages, you
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can easily do so by dragging and dropping the column you want to move to the desired

location. You can also fold or unfold your stages by using the setting icon on your

desired stage.

Sort tasks by priority

On each one of your columns, you have the ability to sort your tasks by priority. Tasks

with a higher priority will automatically be moved to the top of the column. From the

Kanban view, click on the star in the bottom left of a task to tag it as high priority. For

the tasks that are not tagged, Odoo will automatically classify them according to their

deadlines.

Note that dates that passed their deadlines will appear in red (in the list view too so you

can easily follow up the progression of different tasks. Do not forget you can filter your

task with the filter menu.

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Track the progress of each task with the list view

If you enabled the Manage Time Estimation on Tasks, your employees will be able to

log their activities on tasks under the Timesheets sub-menu along with their duration.

The Working Time Progress bar will be updated each time the employee will add an

activity.
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As a manager, you can easily overview the time spent on tasks for all employees by using

the list view. To do so, access the project of your choice and click on the List view icon

(see below). The last column will show you the progression of each task.
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Note: You can also see the employee’s assignment deadline by the function as picture

below:

5. Task Analysis

In order to make a report on each project, you can click on reporting task.
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It has some options to analysis including pine, line, and bar chart as well as measure

function as picture below: