Loading data in OpenERP with XML-RPC Web services

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Loading data from an external source into OpenERP is quite straight-forward. Before trying ETL tools (such as Talend and Kettle), you should try two things first. Understand OpenERP’s object model (you can do it in the customization menu or by reading the code), and then try it with Python.

Trying the data load with Python is quite easy. First, open the Python prompt. Then try an example, the best example is OpenERP’s XML-RPC Web services documentation itself. I mean, start your openerp-server, then line by line try the example. You will see how it works and how easy it is to load data with web services. Then, I would suggest reading the CSV Python module documentation, which explains how to read a CSV file. After that, you only need to put the pieces together, create a Python program that reads the information from a CSV file (which was exported from LibreOffice) and then l0ad that data into OpenERP with web services.

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