How to find a menu with the search

What is it for?

The Search menu box, in the top bar, takes you to any Odoo screen from a word. You do not need to know which app or menu it is in: the result shows the app and the path of each menu found.

When to use it?

• You know the name of the screen, but not which app it is in.
• An entry moved within your menu.
• You want to open a screen without taking your hands off the keyboard.

Where to find it?

In the top bar, on the right, the Search menu… box, with a magnifying glass. It is on every screen and in every profile.

Before you start

The search also finds the returns and lists that only open from a dashboard (for example, the VAT return for distance sales, by typing OSS or one-stop shop), provided your profile can open them.

• Every profile has the box. The steps were done with the Administrative profile.
• The search only shows the menus your profile can open. The example in this article gives different results in another profile.

How to use it

1. Press the / (slash) key, outside a text field, or click the Search menu… box. The cursor moves to the box.
2. Type one or more words from the menu name or path, for example clientes. You do not need accents or capitals: faturacao and Faturação give the same result. But a typo is not corrected: fatrua gives “No menu found.”.
3. Read the list that opens below. It has one group per app, with the app's icon and name, and each menu appears with its path from the app, for example Invoice › Customer invoices. The first result is marked with a tick (✓).
4. With the ↓ and ↑ arrows, move the tick to the menu you want. The arrows move from one group to the next.
5. Press Enter to open the marked menu. You can also click the menu with the mouse.

Expected result

The menu's screen opens, the list closes and the box is cleared, ready for the next search. In the example, clientes, ↓ twice and Enter opened Invoice › Customer invoices, in the Billing app.

Some screens have a title different from the menu name: Collect › To collect opens the Aged Receivable screen.

Important notes

• The search looks for menus, not documents. It does not find an invoice or a customer by name: for that, open the list and use the list's own search.
• The app name counts too. fatura shows the Billing app and all its menus, because they all have “Faturação” in their path. To be more direct, type one more word.
• Each group shows at most 12 menus. When there are more, the last line says, for example, “+ 80 more menus: type more to narrow down”. That is what happened with contabilidade in the Accountant (operates) profile.
• Ctrl + K opens another window. It is Odoo's Search for a command... window, for commands and shortcuts, not this box. For menus, use the / key.

Common problems

“No menu found.” appears

• Cause: no menu your profile can open has those words in its name or path. With the Administrative profile, mapas gives this message: the accounting reports are not for this profile.
• What to do: check that the word is spelled correctly (fatrua finds nothing; fatura does) or try another word, shorter or without the plural, for example recibo instead of recibos emitidos. If you are sure the menu exists, your profile cannot open it: see I do not see a menu or a button.

I press / and a slash appears in the field I was in

• Cause: the cursor was in a text field, for example in a list's search. There, / is typed into the field.
• What to do: delete the slash and click the Search menu… box with the mouse, or first click an empty spot on the page and then press /.