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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

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

Modifying data


Unlike views, regular data records don't have an XML arch structure and can't be extended using XPath expressions. But they can still be modified replacing the values in their fields.

The <record id="x" model="y"> data loading elements actually perform an insert or update operation on the model y: if model x does not exist, it is created; otherwise, it is updated/written over.

Since records in other modules can be accessed using a <model>.<identifier> global identifier, it's possible for our module to overwrite something that was written before by another module.

Note

Note that since the dot is reserved to separate the module name from the object identifier, it can't be used in identifier names. Instead, use the underscore option.

Modifying menu and action records

As an example, let's change the menu option created by the todo_app module to My To-Do. For this, we can add the following to the todo_user/views/todo_task.xml file:

<!-- Modify menu item --> 
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