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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

Defining the user interface with XML files


Each component of the user interface is stored in a database record, just like business records are. Modules add UI elements to the database loading the corresponding data from XML files.

This means that a new XML data file for our UI needs to be added to the todo_ui module. We can start by editing the __manifest__.py file to declare these new data files:

{ 
  'name': 'User interface improvements to the To-Do app', 
  'description': 'User friendly features.', 
  'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
  'depends': ['todo_user'], 
  'data': [ 
    'security/ir.model.access.csv', 
    'views/todo_view.xml', 
    'views/todo_menu.xml', 
  ]} 

Note

Remember that the data files are loaded in the order you specify. This is important because you can only reference XML IDs that were defined before they are being used.

We might also create the subdirectory and the views/todo_view.xml and views/todo_menu.xml files with a minimal...