Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

Managing sequences in Odoo

When you are setting up a system for your business, there is a good chance that the default naming conventions of documents and number sequences used by Odoo are not ideal. A simple example is that you're unlikely to want your invoices starting at 00001 if you've already produced thousands of invoices. In this case, you would want the number to start where the old system left off.

Additionally, sequences in Odoo don't just manage the numbering of your documents. They also manage how the document name looks inside Odoo. To see the current sequences defined by Odoo, go to the Settings menu and choose Sequences | Sequences & Identifiers. In Odoo 11 this is only accessible through developer mode:

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