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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

Questions


  1. How can we extend an existing Model to add a mixin, such as mail.thread?
  2. What changes are needed to also have the Phone field available in the Member form View?
  3. What happens if you create a Model class with a name attribute that's different from the inherit attribute (for example, _name='y' and _inherit='x')?
  4. Can XPath be used to modify data records from other modules?
  5. When inheriting a Model to extend it, can we extend a method and not use super() to call the original code being inherited?
  6. How can we extend the Book catalogue web page to add the ISBN field at the end of the line, without referencing any particular field name?