Odoo Connection

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Odoo is an open-source suite of business applications, including CRM, accounting, and inventory management.

This topic describes how to authenticate to Odoo and configure any necessary connection properties in the Odoo connection connector.

Connection Configuration #

Each connection property available in the Odoo connector is explained below.

Connection Name #

The name of the connection to be created should be provided. This is the name that will display on the list of available connections.

User #

The Odoo user account used to authenticate.

API Token #

The API token (or password) used to authenticate the user.

When using Odoo 14 and above, this option can be set to either an API token or password. API tokens are recommended over passwords.

URL #

The base URL of the Odoo site you’re connecting to.

Example: http://my.odoo.com/

Database #

The name of the Odoo database you’re connecting to.

When connecting to Odoo online, this value is usually the name of your custom Odoo domain. For example, if you connect to https://contoso.odoo.com, then the Database should be set to contoso.

When connecting to an on-premise instance of Odoo, you can find this value by logging out of Odoo and opening the Manage Databases page from the login screen. There, you can determine the database you need to connect to.

Enable SSL #

Option to enable SSL. This field sets whether the connector will attempt to negotiate TLS/SSL connections to the server. By default, the connector checks the server’s certificate against the system’s trusted certificate store.

Upload Keystore File #

If SSL is enabled, a keystore file has to be uploaded using this option.

Advanced Configuration #

This section contains additional configuration parameters.

Odoo Edition #

The edition of Odoo being used. Set either Odoo Online or Odoo On-Premise.

When the Odoo Edition is set to Odoo Online, the connector will consider the System’s culture while processing the float/decimal/double data types for Insert statements.

Check Permissions #

Whether to use Odoo user’s permissions to determine which tables and views to list.

Each user in Odoo has different permissions to some models - they can modify some, read others, and may not be able to access some at all.

When Check Permissions is true (the default), the model permissions are examined so that modifiable models are classified as tables, read-only models are classified as views, and inaccessible models are not listed.

When Check Permissions is false, all the models within Odoo are listed as tables and the permissions check is skipped.

Checking model permissions requires an administrator to grant your user ‘read-only’ access to the “ir.model.access” model because it is not readable to most users by default. If access to that model cannot be granted to the connecting user, then set this option to false.

Add Configuration: Additional properties can be added using this option as key-value pairs.

After entering all the details, click on the TEST button.

If the connection service identification and authentication details are provided correctly, a success message stating “connection available” is generated.

Click on the CREATE button to save the changes.

If the details are incorrect or the server is down, you will get a message “Connection unavailable”.