{"id":25199,"date":"2025-07-31T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/uncategorized\/how-to-create-department-in-odoo18\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:12:57","slug":"how-to-create-department-in-odoo18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/bharath-india\/how-to-create-department-in-odoo18\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Department in Odoo18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_60642\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNqSqF2Mgzo?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and manage departments within <strong>Odoo18<\/strong>, which helps in structuring your company&#8217;s organisational hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following steps detail the process for setting up a new department and configuring its key attributes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Access the Employees Module<\/strong>: Start by opening the <strong>Employees<\/strong> application from the Odoo main dashboard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Navigate to Departments<\/strong>: Within the module, select the <strong>Departments<\/strong> menu at the top to view current departments or create a new one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Create New Department<\/strong>: Click the <strong>New<\/strong> button to open the configuration form.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Configure Department Details<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Department Name<\/strong>: Enter the name of the department, such as &#8220;Quality Control&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manager<\/strong>: Assign an employee to lead the department.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Parent Department<\/strong>: If this is a sub-unit, select its parent department (e.g., placing &#8220;Quality Control&#8221; under &#8220;Management&#8221;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Display Color<\/strong>: Choose a color code to visually distinguish the department in Kanban and organizational chart views.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Finalize and Save<\/strong>: Click <strong>Save<\/strong> to create the department record.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Assign Employees<\/strong>: Once created, you can assign employees to this department by updating their individual employee profiles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Review Organization<\/strong>: Use the <strong>Hierarchy<\/strong> view to see a visual map of how departments are nested or use the <strong>List<\/strong> view to manage bulk data like exporting records to Excel or CSV.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and manage departments within Odoo18, which helps in structuring your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bharath-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}