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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

Building websites


The pages given by the previous examples are not integrated into the Odoo website; we have no page footer, menu, and so on. The Odoo website addon module conveniently provides all these features so that we don't have to worry about them ourselves.

To use it, we should start by installing the website addon module in our work instance and then add it as a dependency to our module. The __manifest__.py key depends should look like this:

'depends': ['todo_stage', 'website'], 

To use the website, we also need to modify the controller and the template.

The controller can have an additional website=True argument on the route:

@http.route('/hello', auth='public', website=True) 
def hello(self, **kwargs): 
    return request.render('todo_website.hello') 

This website=True parameter is not strictly required for integration with the website module. We can use the website layout  in our template views without adding it. However, it does make a few features available that can then be used...