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Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the best platforms for open source ERP and CRM. Its latest version, Odoo 12, brings with it new features and updates in Python packages to develop more customizable applications with additional cloud capabilities. The book begins by covering the development essentials for building business applications. You will start your journey by learning how to install and configure Odoo, and then transition from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You will develop your first Odoo application and understand topics such as models and views. Odoo 12 Development Essentials will also guide you in using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress through the chapters, you will be equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features in Odoo 12, such as cloud integration, to scale your business applications. You will get insights into building business logic and integrating various APIs into your application. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a business application from scratch by using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

The QWeb template language


The QWeb parser looks for special directives in the templates and replaces them with dynamically generated HTML. These directives are XML element attributes and can be used in any valid tag or element, such as <div>, <span>, or <field>.

Sometimes, we may want to use a QWeb directive but we don't want to place it in any of the XML elements in our template. For those cases, we have a <t> special element that can have QWeb directives, such as t-if or t-foreach, but is silent and won't have any output on the final XML/HTML produced.

The QWeb directives will frequently make use of evaluated expressions to produce different results, depending on the current record values. There are two different QWeb implementations: client-side JavaScript and server-side Python.

The reports and website pages use the server-side Python implementation of QWeb.

Kanban views use the client-side JavaScript implementation. This means that the QWeb expression used in Kanban...