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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

Summary


You learned about Kanban boards and how to build Kanban views to implement them. We also introduced QWeb templating and how it can be used to design Kanban cards. QWeb is also the rendering engine powering the CMS website, so it's growing in importance in the Odoo toolset.

Kanban views can be extended using the same XML syntax used in other views. In the case of Kanban, the XML architecture can be more complex, and we'll often need to use XPath expressions to locate the elements to extend.

Finally, advanced Kanban views can use specific CSS and Javascript. These can be added as module files that should then be included in the web client pages, by adding them in the web.assets_backend QWeb template.

In the next chapter, we'll keep using QWeb, but on the server side, to create our custom reports.