In this chapter, we started by learning how to activate Odoo's developer mode. Next, we walked through how to make a backup of the Odoo database and how to restore that database using the manage database tools in Odoo. It was emphasized how important it is to back up databases prior to performing any customization in Odoo. Next, we went through step-by-step how to customize Odoo by adding fields to the database and ultimately to your forms and views. This is by no means a comprehensive guide to Odoo customization; it is merely an introduction to common ways to easily customize forms, lists, and searches.
In the next chapter, we will explore how we can use the Odoo report designer to customize reports and export data from Odoo. We begin by looking at how to customize our company headers and footers that will appear on our standard documents. With Odoo, we can use dynamic fields to automatically put values from our database into our reports. Using the new QWeb template language we will...