Hello everyone,

I recently migrated from the Community edition to Enterprise and upgraded my database from version 18.0 to 18.3. I didn't notice it right away, but was very unpleasantly surprised to find that a familiar window in the Bill of Materials (Manufacturing module) was completely missing.

Previously, in the BOM, there was an ability to add operator instructions to each operation via a separate Work Sheet section — and we used this feature extensively.

Now it has simply disappeared, along with all the information we had stored in those fields.

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This change feels completely illogical and deeply frustrating. I had to contact Odoo technical support five times just to get confirmation that the Work Sheet section was indeed removed.

According to their explanation, this functionality has now been moved into the Quality Control module. However, this makes little sense in a production workflow, since instructions for operators and instructions for quality inspectors are fundamentally different and should not be merged into a single flow.

When I tried to follow up with further questions, the support team stopped responding altogether.

To make matters worse, there is no mention of this change in any changelog or official documentation — in fact, the Work Sheet section still appears in the current user manuals.

Even Odoo support agents themselves seem confused about what has happened and can't provide a clear answer.

Unfortunately, this is not the first regression I’ve noticed in the Manufacturing module since switching to the Enterprise version.

To be honest, my first impression of the paid version is one of complete disappointment.

Still, I would sincerely appreciate any official explanation from the Odoo team, or any insights from the community.

Perhaps there is a hidden setting I missed that brings this feature back.

Or, at the very least, guidance on how to recover the lost worksheet content and properly migrate it into the new quality control workflow — if that is truly the intended replacement.

Thank you in advance.