When creating a new Odoo module, there is some boilerplate that needs to be set up. To help quick starting new modules, Odoo provides the
scaffold
command.
The recipe shows how to create a new module using the scaffold
command, which will put in place a skeleton of the files directories to use.
We need Odoo installed and a directory for our custom modules.
We will assume that Odoo is installed at ~/odoo-dev/odoo
and our custom modules will be at ~/odoo-dev/local-addons
.
The scaffold
command is used from the command line:
Change the working directory to where we will want our module to be. This can be whatever directory you choose, but within an addons path to be useful. Following the directory choices used in the previous recipe, it should be as follows:
$ cd ~/odoo-dev/local-addons
Choose a technical name for the new module and use the
scaffold
command to create it. For our example, we will choosemy_scaffolded
:$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo...