Financial Reports, Odoo Development Cookbook, FSF, PSF, OSI, PostgreSQL
May issue of the OCA Newsletter

Financial Reports, Odoo Development Cookbook, FSF, PSF, OSI and PostgreSQL

May issue of the OCA Newsletter

Financial Reports: Sorrento code sprint results

The code sprint took place in Sorrento, Italy, from April 26th to 29th. The main topic for this sprint was to review and improve the financial reports on Odoo version 9, namely:

  • the General Ledger,

  • the Partner Ledger,

  • the Trial Balance,

  • the Partner Balance,

  • the Profit & Loss,

  • the Balance Sheet.

The 30+ sprinters also focused on adjusting and reengineering the OCA modules from version 8 to 9 due to the changes in the data structure.

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Two new modules are merged already:

  • date_range in OCA/server-tools allows the creation of date ranges (such as Month, Quarter, Fiscal Month, etc) and easy use of such ranges in advanced searches; it enables easy reporting with advanced fiscal calendars (4-4-5, etc);
  • account_fiscal_year in OCA/account-financial-tools lets you manage fiscal years that have a duration other than 12 months.

You can review the pull requests for the Tax Balances Report, and a ported and improved MIS Builder. Other code is available in the OCA-Sorrento repository and should be converted to pull requests in the weeks to come (eg for the General Ledger and easy integration of Trial Balance, Balance Sheet and P&L in the menus).

For more information, please read:

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Odoo Development Cookbook

We have the pleasure to announce that a new Odoo book is available, written by well known OCA members Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis and Alexandre Fayolle. 

This book covers Odoo 9, with a heavy emphasis on the new API. 

The 16 chapters cover a wide range of topics such as installation from source, addon module creation, server side development, web client side development, debugging... 

FSF, PSF, OSI, PostgreSQL

As the OCA value collaboration, the OCA Board has decided to encourage existing organizations in its ecosystem. The OCA is now:

  • an Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The FSF is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.
  • an Iron Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). The PSF is an organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language.
  • a donator of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI is the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and the community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant.
  • a donator of PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is an affiliated project of Software in the Public Interest. Funds donated to PostgreSQL are used to sponsor general PostgreSQL efforts (advocacy materials, conference expenses, legal expenses, and travel costs).


The OCA is proud to sponsor those organizations and their respective missions allowing the OCA to pursue its own.

Feature Highlights

Noteworthy additions to OCA Projects

Version 9

Accounting: Account fiscal year

This module extends date.range.type to add a fiscal_year flag.

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock available to promise

This module proposes several options to compute the quantity available to promise for each product. 

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock available MRP

This module takes the potential quantities available for Products into account in the quantity available to promise, where the "Potential quantity" is the quantity that can be manufactured with the components immediately at hand. 

Apps Github

Manufacturing: MRP BOM dismantling

This module adds the ability to create a dismantling BOM by reversing a BOM.

Apps Github

Purchase: Purchase picking state

This module allows to add the picking status on the purchase order.

Apps Github

Product: Product manufacturer

This module adds the manufacturer and its attributes on the product form.

Apps Github

Sales: Sale exception

This module allows you to attach several customizable exceptions to your sale order in a way that you can filter orders by exceptions type and fix them.

Apps Github

Tools: Base user gravatar

This modules allows you to synchronize your image from Gravatar and use it in Odoo.

Apps Github

Tools: Date range

This module lets you define global date ranges that can be used to filter your values in tree views.

Apps Github

Web: Web favicon

This module was written to allow you to customize your Odoo instance's shortcut icon (aka favicon). 

Apps Github

Version 8

Logistics: Product multi EAN

This module allows to have multiple EAN13 on products.

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock analysis

This module extends the stock reporting to allow better stock per location analysis. By default, it adds a pivot table where lines are products and columns are locations.

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock inventory hierarchical

This module adds a parent-child relationship between inventory adjustments, to help users manage complex warehouses.

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock inventory lockdown

This module lets you lock down the locations during an inventory.

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock lock lot

This module allows you to define whether a Production Lot/Serial Number is blocked or not. 

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock lot scrap

This module adds a button in Production Lot/Serial Number form view to scrap all the quants it contains.

Apps Github

Logistics: Stock picking back to draft

This module allows you to bring cancelled pickings back to draft.

Apps Github

Purchase: Purchase delivery split by date

When this module is installed, each purchase order you confirm will generate one incoming shipment for each expected date indicated in the purchase order lines.

Apps Github

Server Tools: Auto backup

A tool for all your back-ups, internal and external!

Github

Packaging

The setuptools/pip/wheel-based packaging and deployment mechanism has moved one step further. All OCA repositories now have a setup directory containing a setup.py file for each addon. From those, the OCA bot generates wheels to https://wheelhouse.odoo-community.org each night. 

The introductory blog post has been updated to reflect this change.

Events and Local Communities

Future Events

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October 2nd - Code Sprint in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

If you missed it last year, here is your chance: The OCA will organize a 3-days code sprint before the 2016 Odoo Experience. Location in Louvain-la-Neuve is not determined yet, but you can already book your dates to live the most exciting week in the Odoo Community.

More info

Heartbeat & Activities

New Contributors, PSC and PSC Members

In April 2016, 46 Github contributors (including 5 new ones) made 316 commits while 179 Transifex collaborators translated 37,641 terms. Runbot was used 1,205 times and the 1,194 OCA modules were downloaded 15,486 times in the last 3 months. 

New contributors

From Switzerland

From the UK

From Venezuela

Board Announcements

2016 OCA Delegates

From April the 25th to May the 6th, the OCA Delegates have voted for new Delegates. Congratulations and welcome to all of them:

2016 General Assembly

Due to the 2016 Odoo Experience scheduled in October, the 2016 General Assembly will be held online, as per the remaining agenda below:

  • Until May 20th

    • Delegates fill in this form to propose their candidacy as a Board Member

    • Delegates fill in this form to propose their candidacy as a Financial Auditor

  • From May 23rd to June 3rd

    • Delegates vote for 9 Board Members, 

    • Delegates vote for 3 Financial Auditors,

    • Delegates approve the publication of the 2015 General Assembly record,

    • Delegates approve the 2015 Financials Statements,

    • Delegates approve the 2015 Activities Report,

    • Delegates approve the 2016 Budget.

About the OCA

OCA, the Odoo Community Association, is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

Contact information: news@odoo-community.org

Financial Reports, Odoo Development Cookbook, FSF, PSF, OSI, PostgreSQL
Open Source Integrators, Maxime Chambreuil 9 May, 2016
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