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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is fast becoming the reference open source platform for business applications thanks to the fact that it provides the infrastructure needed for developers to deliver software solutions for any business process quickly. Odoo's layered module approach makes it particularly effective for combining and extending features. This updated fifth edition is a tutorial-style introduction to essential Odoo development topics. The book starts by covering the development essentials for building business applications and takes you through Odoo installation and configuration, gradually transitioning from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You'll then learn how to develop your first Odoo application, while covering topics such as models and views. Later chapters will get you up to speed with using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress, you’ll get equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features available in Odoo 12 and beyond, such as in-memory ORM and computed writable fields. Finally, you’ll gain insights into building business logic and using the Odoo API to integrate with various applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build business apps from scratch using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
6
Section 2: Models
9
Section 3: Business Logic
13
Section 4: Views
18
Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

Developing in Odoo usually means creating our own modules. In this chapter, we will create our first Odoo application, learn the steps needed to make it available to Odoo, and install it.

We will get started by learning the basics of the development workflow—we'll create and install a new module and update it to apply the changes we make throughout the development iterations.

Odoo follows a Model-View-Controller (MVC)-like architecture, and we will go through the different layers to implement a library application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of the library project
  • Step 1 – Creating a new addon module
  • Step 2 – Creating a new application
  • Step 3 – Adding automated tests
  • Step 4 – Implementing the model layer
  • Step 5 – Setting up access security
  • Step 6 – Implementing the backend view layer
  • Step 7 – Implementing...