While Odoo has a lot of built-in and community modules, it is inevitable that there will be quite a few businesses that will have requirements that will be difficult to achieve with the currently available modules. The Odoo framework offers developers the capability of extending Odoo to accomplish business objectives and (hopefully) make Odoo fit in better with the workflow of the company. It is important, however, before attempting to write custom Odoo modules that you completely understand the functionality of Odoo and the various modules that are available in the community.
In this chapter, we will cover:
Learning the basic structure of an Odoo module
Using a module to add additional fields to your Odoo system
Extending the views in your Odoo instance to include new fields
Making changes to the available states to use in an Odoo workflow
Through careful configuration, many business objectives can be achieved without writing custom modules. It is important...