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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

The form views


As we have seen in previous chapters, form views can follow a simple layout or a business document layout, similar to a paper document.

We will now see how to design these business document views and how to use the elements and widgets available. We would normally do this by inheriting and extending the todo_app views. But for the sake of clarity, we will instead create completely new views to override the original ones.

Dealing with several views of the same type

The same model can have more than one view of the same type. This can be useful since an window action can tell the specific view that should be used, through its XML ID. So we have the flexibility to have two different menu items to open the same model using different views. This is done adding a view_id attribute to the window action, with the XML ID of the view to use. For example, we could have used this in the todo_app.action_todo_task action, with something similar to: view_id="view_form_todo_task_ui".

But what...