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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

The Mail and Social features API


Odoo has available global messaging and activity planning features, provided by the Discuss app, with the technical name mail.

The mail module provides the mail.thread abstract class that makes it simple to add the messaging features to any model. This was done in Chapter 4, Models – Structure The Application Data, to explain how to inherit features from mixin abstract classes. To add the mail.thread features to the To-Do tasks, we just need to inherit from it:

class TodoTask(models.Model): 
    _name = 'todo.task'_inherit = ['todo.task', 'mail.thread']

After this, among other things, our model will have two new fields available. For each record (sometimes also called a document) we have:

  • mail_follower_ids stores the followers, and corresponding notification preferences
  • mail_message_ids lists all the related messages

The followers can be either partners or channels. A partner represents a specific person or organization. A channel is not a particular person, and...