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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Website forms


Forms are a common feature found on websites. We already have all the tools needed to implement one: a QWeb template can provide the HTML for the form, the corresponding submit action can be a URL, processed by a controller that can run all the validation logic, and it can finally store the data in the proper model.

But for non-trivial forms, this can be a demanding task. It's not that simple to perform all the necessary validations and provide feedback to the user about what is wrong.

Since this is a common need, a website_form addon is available to aid us with this. Let's see how to use it.

Looking back at the Add button in the Todo Task list, we can see that it opens the /todo/add URL. This should present a form to submit a new Todo Task, and the fields available will be the task name, a person (user) responsible for the task, and a file attachment.

We should start by adding the website_form dependency to our addon module. We can replace website, since keeping it explicitly...