Getting Familiar With Odoo Project Forecast Module

The purpose of forecasting is to manage your projects, managing people, tasks, due dates, budgets.

• Forecast needs to be enabled before creating a Project.

Go to configurations→ Settings→ enable checkbox along with forecast.

• Create a New Project and select the Planning & Timesheet checkbox.

• Manage your Project’s Stage: Open your project and add columns and manage the project stages by customizing them. The Stages can be: To-Do, In-Progress, Done, Canceled, Resolved.

• For each stage, markers can use the status of tasks that you can personalize.
• Drag your mouse over a stage name, and click on Settings and Edit.

• The dots are used to customizable markers that applied to tasks, making it easier to know which tasks require attention.
• You can be Planning for your project By Employee or By Project.

• Select By Employee option and click on the Add button to add a plan for a particular employee, allocated hours for the selected project, Start & End Date for the task.

• You can PUBLISH & SEND plan to the selected employee.

• If you are selecting the By Project option then the added plan shows along with the project name.

• You can also check the Analysis for the Task, Planning, Timesheet & Planning, Project Costs & Revenue.

Task Analysis Report:

Project Analysis Report:

Timesheet & Planning Analysis Report:

Project Costs and Revenue Report:

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