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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

Our first web page


We will create an addon module for our website features. We can call it todo_website. To introduce the basics of Odoo web development, we will implement a simple Hello World web page. Imaginative, right?

As usual, we will start creating it's manifest file. Create the todo_website/__manifest__.py file with:

{  
  'name': 'To-Do Website', 
  'description': 'To-Do Tasks Website', 
  'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
  'depends': ['todo_kanban']} 

We are building on top of the todo_kanban addon module, so that we have all the features available added to the To-do Tasks model throughout the book.

Notice that right now we are not depending on the website addon module. While website provides a useful framework to build full featured websites, the basic web capabilities are built into the core framework. Let's explore them.

Hello World!

To provide our first web page, we will add a controller object. We can begin by having its file imported with the module:

First add...