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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. With announcement of Odoo 10, there are many new features added to Odoo and the face of business applications developed with Odoo has changed. This book will not only teach you how to build and customize business applications with Odoo, but it also covers all the new features that Odoo has to offer. This book is the latest resource on developing and customizing Odoo 10 applications. It comes packed with much more and refined content than its predecessor. It will start with building business applications from scratch and will cover topics such as module extensions, inheritance, working with data, user interfaces, and so on. The book also covers the latest features of Odoo 10, in addition to front end development, testing and debugging techniques. The book will also talk about Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding sharing capabilities to the To-Do app


Our To-Do application now allows users to privately manage their own to-do tasks. Won't it be great to take the app to another level by adding collaboration and social networking features to it? We will be able to share tasks and discuss them with other people.

We will do this with a new module to extend the previously created To-Do app and add these new features using the inheritance mechanisms. Here is what we expect to achieve by the end of this chapter:

This will be our work plan for the feature extensions to be implemented:

  • Extend the Task model, such as the user who is responsible for the task
  • Modify the business logic to operate only on the current user's tasks, instead of all the tasks the user is able to see
  • Extend the views to add the necessary fields to the views
  • Add social networking features: a message wall and the followers

We will start creating the basic skeleton for a new todo_user module alongside the todo_app module. Following the...