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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Gajjar, Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Gajjar, Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is a powerful framework known for rapid application development. Its latest release, Odoo 12, introduces tons of new features. With this book, you’ll learn how to develop powerful Odoo applications from scratch, using all the latest features. This Odoo cookbook starts by covering Odoo installation and deployment on the server. Next, you’ll explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You’ll create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You’ll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS). This book is not just limited to backend development; the advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets will help you build beautiful UI elements. As you move forward, you’ll gain insights into website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated tests. Finally, you’ll learn the latest concepts like multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, and IoT Box. By the end of the book, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build powerful Odoo applications. The development best practices used in this book will undoubtedly come handy when you are working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Adding security access to models

It's common for add-on modules to add new models. For example, in Chapter 4, Creating Odoo Add-On Modules, we added a new Library Books model. It is easy to miss the creation of security access for new models during development, and you might find it hard to see menus and views that have created, because, from Odoo version 12, admin users don't get default access rights to new models. In order to see views and menus for the new model, you have to need to add security Access-Control Lists (ACLs).

However, models with no ACLs will trigger a warning log message on loading, informing the user about the missing ACL definitions:

WARNING The model library.book has no access rules, consider adding one example, access_library_book, access_library_book, model_library_book, base.group_user,1,0,0,0

You can also access newly added models through a...