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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

Server and module updates


Once the Odoo server is ready and running, there will come a time when you need to install updates on Odoo. This involves two steps: first to get the new versions of the source code (server or modules), and second to install them.

If you have followed the approach described in the Installing from the source code section, we can fetch and test the new versions in the staging repository. It is strongly advised that you make a copy of the production database and test the upgrade on it. If odoo-prod is your production database, this can be done with the following commands:

$ dropdb odoo-stage
$ createdb odoo-stage
$ pg_dump odoo-prod | psql -d odoo-stage
$ sudo su odoo
$ cd ~/.local/share/Odoo/filestore/
$ cp -al odoo-prod odoo-stage
$ ~/odoo-11.0/odoo-bin -d odoo-stage --xmlrpc-port=8080 \
-c  /etc/odoo/odoo.conf

Before we can use this copy of the database, some cleanup should be done, such as deactivating scheduled actions, email servers (both for sending and fetching...