for OdooWelcome to Better Lists for Odoo
Add your own colors to Odoo lists. Spot high-value orders, find a customer, or bring overdue dates into focus.
| Customer | Due date | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Northstar | 28 Sept | €8,450 |
| Acme Studio | 30 Sept | €24,600 |
| Oak & Co. | Overdue | €3,200 |
| Brightside | 2 Oct | €12,750 |
Your conditions. Your colors. Right inside your lists.
Start on your own Odoo site.
Click Chrome’s Extensions puzzle-piece icon next to the address bar. Find Better Lists for Odoo and click the pin beside it.
Its icon will stay in your toolbar for easy access.
Better Lists for OdooOpen your Odoo site and click the Better Lists toolbar icon. Choose Enable on this site & reload, then allow access when Chrome asks.
Save any unfinished edits first: this reloads your Odoo tab. Enable each Odoo site you want to use.
Open an Odoo list, such as Sales → Orders. Right-click a cell and choose Create Odoo formatting rule.
Name your rule, choose its condition and colors, then click Save rule. The field you clicked is selected for you.
Pinning is done in Chrome, not on this page. Chrome’s extension help ↗
Select One cell or Entire row. The Cell setting chooses where the color goes; the condition’s Field chooses what to check. Tick background color, font color, or both.
Use All conditions match for AND, or Any condition matches for OR. Move rules up or down to set priority: put your more specific rules first.
A few useful details
Click List rules at the bottom right of your Odoo page to edit, reorder, disable, or delete a rule. Pause rules temporarily stops highlighting for the current account.
Show all rules, next to Import rules, lets you browse saved rules with a site dropdown. Open the corresponding site and account to edit them.
Yes. For example, use Customer → Contains → a customer name. Relation fields match their displayed text, so keep that column visible. Date conditions support calendar days and options such as “within the last N calendar days.”
Check that the extension is enabled for this site. Open a standard Odoo list and right-click a data cell. If you just reloaded or updated the extension, refresh your Odoo tab after saving any unfinished work.
Use the Sync checkbox on each rule to choose Chrome sync or local storage. New rules default to sync, and both kinds appear together in your rules list. Sync uses the same Google account with Chrome sync enabled, separately for each site, database, and Odoo user. Site access must be enabled separately. They do not change your Odoo records. Use Export rules to keep a backup, and Import rules to add rules from a saved file.