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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Gajjar, Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then 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) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Modifying an existing handler

When you install the website module, the /website/info path displays some information about your Odoo instance. In this recipe, we will override this in order to change this information page's layout, and to also change what is displayed.

Getting ready

Install the website module and inspect the /website/info path. In this recipe, we will update the/website/info route to provide more information.

How to do it...

We'll have to adapt the existing template and override the existing handler. We can do this as follows:

  1. Override the qweb template in a file called views/templates.xml, as follows:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
    <odoo> 
      <template id="show_website_info"  
                inherit_id="website.show_website_info">
        <xpath expr="//dl[@t-foreach=&apos...