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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
4.5 (2)
Book Image

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

Learning project – extending the Library app

In Chapter 3, Your First Odoo Application, we created the initial module for the Library app and provided a book catalog. Now, we will extend the application to add library members and allow them to borrow books. For this, we will create an extension module called library_member.

These are the features we must provide:

  • Library books can be available to be borrowed or not. This information should be shown in the book form and on the website's catalog page.
  • Some library member master data, along with the library card number, plus personal data, such as name, address, and email.
  • We would like to provide members with the messaging and social features that are available on the borrowing form, including the planned activities widget, to allow for better collaboration.

Later, we plan to introduce a feature that allows members to borrow books from the library, but this is outside our scope for now. This will...