
Discover tricks to import millions of external records into Odoo in seconds, from invoices to journal entries and employees, and optimize the daily data import for maximum speed.
Explore practical methods to import large data sets into Odoo, from staging databases and CSP files to automated add-ons and engine-based integrations for faster performance.
Examine a case study on importing employee and department data into odoo, using mysql setup, the hr module, and sample data; compare three import methods by speed and generate reports.
Download and unzip the sample database, run the restoration in the terminal using your username and password, and import the employees and departments tables into a new Odoo database.
Analyze the datasource structure of employees, salaries, and departments to map one-to-many and one-to-one relations, including a junction table for employee and department links before importing large datasets into Odoo.
Map employee data by aligning fields like identification number, full name, birth date, and gender during import; import the department table first to resolve department id before linking to HR.
Present the initial specification for an import system that creates a department in the Odoo HR module and uses its id to import employees from the base database.
Develop a PHP middleman script that connects to a data source, loops and processes data, posts the results, and demonstrates running the script via a command.
Download the credit card examiner IPC library report and save it to your working folder, then create a folder, extract the zip, and locate the port master for the script.
Discover the core PHP script logic to pull employee data into an employees array, capture start and end times, compute duration in minutes, and display results in the user interface.
Learn to pull employee data by connecting to the database, configuring generous memory and execution limits, executing a select query, and storing results in an array for pushing into Odoo.
Push data to Odoo by looping employee records, logging in through an endpoint, and creating each employee with mapped fields such as first name, last name, and employee ID.
Test and run data import scripts for Odoo, troubleshoot errors, measure execution time in milliseconds, and determine that importing three hundred thousand records is impractical and requires alternative methods.
Importing a huge dataset into odoo via method 1 takes about five hours on local infrastructure, with cloud speeds possibly doubling due to network conditions.
Explore direct sql imports that bypass the middleman, fetch data from my skill, and use spl code to create employees and departments for rapid odoo imports, with a reset confirmation.
Install the MySQL connector for Python using the provided command to download and install the required packages in your environment.
Use scaffold features to quickly create an addon for importing large data into Odoo, organize addon folders in the terminal, and set dependencies like employee and department.
Create a wizard model in Odoo to import a large number of employee records quickly, detailing setup of the Python module, action method, and user interface flow.
Create a wizard view in Odoo by defining a transient form with confirm and cancel actions, and wire it to a menu under employee configurations for importing data.
Test and install the addon in Odoo by configuring the module grid, verifying no errors, and iterating on the employee configuration and related menus as you define the method.
Describe the import logic as an actions-driven workflow on the employee model, with a button triggering a process method to create employees from the input data and log the results.
Establish a database connection by importing the skill connector package, defining host, user, password, and database constants, and using the connection handler to connect to the employees database.
Pull department data by querying the relevant table, fetch the department id and name, execute and retrieve the data, and save the attribute for use in Odoo.
Push department to Odoo by looping through departments, checking existence, then inserting new records with direct sql, and counting created records for performance.
Pull employee data by joining the employees and departments tables, using a left join to fetch employee fields and department details for bulk import into Odoo.
Learn how to push employees into Odoo fast by creating a resource, obtaining its id, and inserting employees with name, id, department, and resource id, while managing connections and memory.
Method 2 demonstrates a significant performance boost for importing data into Odoo, completing thousands of records in about four minutes, versus hours earlier.
Use the plpgsql stored procedure to run inside the database, building a delimited string of employee records for bulk import into Odoo, then parse rows and fields separated by symbols.
Showcases batch importing department records into Odoo by building a single delimited string of department codes and names, then executing one Postgres query to create all records at once.
Create a Postgres function in plpgsql that uses string_to_array to explode a delimited string into department records, loops with for each, and outputs parsed fields for rapid data import.
Learn to create and update a department stored function, refresh its definition after edits, execute it, and conditionally insert departments when they do not exist.
Modify the create employee method by looping through each employee record, extracting the first name, last name, and reports, to build a string payload for Odoo import.
create or replace a stored function to import employee data from a delimited string, explode it into records, map fields to variables, insert resources and employees, and handle date formats.
Test the create employee stored function by executing it with a sample, inserting a new employee into the Postgres employee table, and verifying the record appears in the table.
Integrate, upgrade, and run an Odoo addon by executing Python procedures, dropping and recreating functions during upgrade or install.
Showcases method 3 test result by importing 300,000 employee records into odoo in about one minute, highlighting a significant speed improvement and timing checks.
Filter records by a last_update timestamp to fetch only recently updated employees during imports into Odoo, store last sync time in a system parameter, and update it after each import.
Troubleshoot and test the import workflow in Odoo for large data, ensuring updates replace existing records rather than creating duplicates by using timestamp changes, incremental updates, and update-on-insert logic.
Enhance the employee creation flow by checking for existing records via the unique ID before inserting, then update or insert as needed, including name concatenation and resource fields.
Test the update feature by simulating staging data, then verify that existing employee records update correctly when changes like name and birth date are saved and imported.
Automate data imports into Odoo for unskilled users by activating a cron scheduler, configuring a daily import task with id, name, active, and user_id, and executing the Python action.
Learn to configure and test the cron scheduler in odoo for fast bulk imports, trigger automated daily data imports, and verify updates to employee records.
Opt for a Postgres-based storage processor with batch packaging to import large data into Odoo; perform heavy logic inside Postgres and minimize network requests for speed.
Do you have Odoo implementation cases to regularly import a huge amount of data from external data source like MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc? I meant, very huge, like million of invoices or journal entries record per day ?
Using the common standard way, the Odoo's XMLRPC and ORM, this process can take hours, if not timeout, while we are taking a few cups of coffee as Odoo suggests :)
This course explains in detail about techniques to improve the data import performance, starting from data source query, processing in Python, and processing in Odoo Database (PostgreSQL) to achieve a drastic performance increase, that was previously taking more than 10 hours to only seconds! Yes, seconds.. how can it be ? Is that possible ?
YES
And we have implemented this technique in many implementation cases where Odoo's default mechanism is no more capable to handle that million of records per day!
Enjoy !