| Availability |
Odoo Online
Odoo.sh
On Premise
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| Odoo Apps Dependencies |
•
Invoicing (account)
• Sales (sale_management) • Discuss (mail) • Inventory (stock) |
| Lines of code | 1670 |
| Technical Name |
product_characteristics_2bit |
| License | OPL-1 |
| Website | https://www.2bit.ch/ |
| Versions | 18.0 |
| Availability |
Odoo Online
Odoo.sh
On Premise
|
| Odoo Apps Dependencies |
•
Invoicing (account)
• Sales (sale_management) • Discuss (mail) • Inventory (stock) |
| Lines of code | 1670 |
| Technical Name |
product_characteristics_2bit |
| License | OPL-1 |
| Website | https://www.2bit.ch/ |
| Versions | 18.0 |
Product Characteristics
Define reusable product characteristics for products and documents
Developed by 2BIT Digital GmbH — your Swiss Odoo partner for payroll, accounting, eCommerce, manufacturing and custom business solutions.
Overview
Define reusable product characteristics for products and documents
Adds reusable product characteristics so products can be described, searched and displayed in documents without relying only on variants.
Why You Need This Module
This module is for teams that need to define reusable product characteristics for products and documents. Without it, teams often have to handle this through manual workarounds or extra steps to supports different characteristic types for product description.
It gives teams a cleaner way to supports different characteristic types for product description, so the process stays easier to manage and more consistent in day-to-day use.
What This Module Solves
- Supports different characteristic types for product description
- Offers multiple document display modes, including separate text fields and description-based rendering
- Improves search and filtering of products by characteristic values
- Can be extended with webshop-facing characteristic modules
Key Features
- Supports different characteristic types for product description
- Offers multiple document display modes, including separate text fields and description-based rendering
- Improves search and filtering of products by characteristic values
- Can be extended with webshop-facing characteristic modules
How It Works
- Define reusable characteristic types in Sales configuration.
- Maintain characteristic values directly on the product form in the Characteristics tab.
- Reuse these values in supported sales, stock, production, invoice, and search flows.
Screenshots
Characteristic configuration
Product characteristics tab
Installation
- Mount this module as an Odoo custom addon.
- Update the apps list in Odoo.
- Install the module from the Apps menu.
Dependencies
- product
- sale_management
- sale_stock
- account
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Contact 2BIT Digital GmbHInstall module
There are no dependencies other than odoo base apps, so you can simply install it.
Configuration
Choose how to generate product characteristics text. The parameters are available in sales main settings
- Append product characteristics to name field of document line
- Generate text with product characteristics in separate field
Please note:
Go to Sales > Configuration > Products > Product Characteristics to select documents, on which to show product characteristics.
After selection (1) the product characteristics will be displayed inline:
You can define the visibility in documents for every characteristic separately. Find the settings under characteristics overview.
By selecting option (2), the generated product characteristics can be printed wherever you want it by using the separate field.
Set user permission
By default, users are not allowed to create new product characteristics. In order to grant your users these rights, you have to set "Manage Product Characteristic Values" in the technical features of the user.
Edit your product characteristics in description field
Product characteristics are appended to existing text in the description field, as a list of type-value-pairs. The list of characteristics is ordered by sequence, which can be altered in characteristics configuration.
With the following video you can see how a new characteristic is created and applied in a product.
You can define the following type by “Base Options”:
- char: Normal text
- float: Number with decimals
- date: Date field
- int: Number
- time: Time, saved as float value
- datetime: Date and Time
- selection: Single selection of given value
- selection product template: Single selection of a product template
- selection product variant: Single selection of a product variant
- multisel: Multiple selection of values
- multisel product templates: Multiple selection of product templates
- multisel product variants: Multiple selection of product variants
Characteristics overview
Under Sale => Configuration => Products => Product Characteristics you see all created characteristics. You can also edit them here or make assignments.
Product search by characteristics (product overview)
Products can be searched for characteristic types and values. The search criteria are processed using the $ sign.
- <characteristic type>&<value> searches for exactly the specified type-value combination
- <characteristic type>$ searches for products where the specified characteristic type is set
- $<value> searches for products, where the given characteristic value is set
Example for searching “Cable-length” with “10”:
Product search by characteristics (inline search in documents)
- <characteristic type>&<value> searches for the specified type-value combination
- <characteristic type>& searches for products where the specified characteristic type is set
- $<value> searches for products, where the given characteristic value is set
Example for searching “Cable-length” with “10”:
With a space you can add further conditions.
Please note: Product variants are not yet considered by the current search logic.
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