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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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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

Creating models


For the To-Do tasks to have a kanban board, we need stages. Stages are board columns, and each task will fit into one of these columns:

  1. Edit todo_stage/__init__.py to import the models submodule:
from . import models 
  1. Create the todo_stage/models directory and add to it an __init__.py file with this:
from . import todo_task_tag_model
from . import todo_task_stage_model
  1. Add the todo_stage/models/todo_task_tag_model.py Python code file:
from odoo import fields, models

class Tag(models.Model):
    _name = 'todo.task.tag'
    _description = 'To-do Tag'
    name = fields.Char('Name', translate=True) 

4. Then, add the todo_stage/models/todo_task_stage_model.py Python code file:

from odoo import fields, models

class Stage(models.Model):
    _name = 'todo.task.stage'
    _description = 'To-do Stage'
    _order = 'sequence,name'

    name = fields.Char('Name', translate=True)
    sequence = fields.Integer('Sequence') 

Here, we created the two new models that will be referenced in the To...