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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

Creating a wizard


Suppose our To-Do app users regularly need to set the deadlines and person responsible for a large number of tasks. They could use an assistant to help with this. It should allow them to pick the tasks to be updated and then choose the deadline date and/or the responsible user to set on them.

Wizards are forms used to get input information from users, then use it for further processing. They can be used for simple tasks, such as asking for a few parameters and running a report, or for complex data manipulations, such as the use case described earlier.

This is how our wizard will look:

We can start by creating a new addon module for the todo_wizard feature.

Our module will have a Python file and an XML file, so the todo_wizard/__manifest__.py description will be as shown in the following code:

{  'name': 'To-do Tasks Management Assistant', 
   'description': 'Mass edit your To-Do backlog.', 
   'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
   'depends': ['todo_user'], 
   ...