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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

Creating fields


After creating a new model, the next step is to add fields to it. Odoo supports all the basic data types expected, such as text strings, integers, floating point numbers, Booleans, dates, datetimes, and image/binary data.

Some field names are special, wither because they are reserved by the ORM for special purposes, or because some built-in features by default use some default field names.

Let's explore the several types of fields available in Odoo.

Basic field types

We now have a Stage model and we will expand it to add some additional fields. We should edit the todo_ui/models/todo_model.py file and add extra field definitions to make it look like this:

class Stage(models.Model): 
    _name = 'todo.task.stage' 
    _description = 'To-do Stage' 
    _order = 'sequence,name' 
    # String fields: 
    name = fields.Char('Name', 40) 
    desc = fields.Text('Description') 
    state = fields.Selection( 
        [('draft','New'), ('open','Started...