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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Odoo is a full-featured open source ERP with a focus on extensibility. The flexibility and sustainability of open source are also a key selling point of Odoo. It is built on a powerful framework for rapid application development, both for back-end applications and front-end websites. Version 11 offers better usability and speed: a new design (as compared to the current Odoo Enterprise version) and a mobile interface. The book starts by covering Odoo installation and administration and Odoo Server deployment. It then delves into the implementation of Odoo modules, the different inheritance models available in Odoo. You will then learn how to define access rules for your data; how to make your application available in different languages; how to expose your data models to end users on the back end and on the front end; and how to create beautiful PDF versions of your data. By the end of the book, you will have a thorough knowledge of Odoo and will be able to build effective applications by applying Odoo development best practices
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Email templates

Emails are a very convenient way of sending information to other users or third parties. Odoo has a nice way of providing templates for emails with placeholders that will get filled in with information from the record to which the email is attached when the message is posted. Such templates can be used when manually sending an email, or when a message is sent automatically for instance through a server action.

In this recipe, we will define a mail template to notify a user of the library that they forgot to bring back some documents.

Getting ready

This recipe builds on models introduced in the Write a wizard to guide the user recipe from Chapter 9, Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques, and the Extending...