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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

Preface

Odoo is a full-featured open source platform to build applications. Based on this core framework, a suite of integrated applications was built, covering all business areas from CRM and sales to inventory and accounting.

Beyond these out-of-the-box features, Odoo is an application development framework built with extensibility in mind. Extensions and modifications can be implemented as modules, to be applied over the module with the feature being changed. This avoids editing the original feature code and provides clean and easy-to-control customized applications.

This capability to combine several modules into feature-rich applications, along with the open source nature of Odoo, are important factors that explain the community that grew around Odoo. In fact, there are thousands of community modules available for Odoo, covering virtually every topic.

Odoo 15 Development Essentials provides a step-by-step guide to Odoo development, allowing you to quickly climb the learning curve and become productive on the Odoo application platform. At the same time, it provides good reference materials, to be kept nearby every time you are working with Odoo.