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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts
Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts
The Odoo architecture
The Developer mode
Introducing the Library project
Adding a field to an existing Model
Adding Menus, Models, and Views
Configuring access control security
About Odoo base Models
Summary
2
Installing and Organizing the Development Environment
Installing and Organizing the Development Environment
Setting up a host for the Odoo server
Installing Odoo from source
Initializing a new Odoo database
A word about Odoo product versions
More server configuration options
Developing from a remote workstation
Installing additional modules
Summary
3
Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview
Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview
Creating a new addon module
Discovering and installing new modules
The model layer
The view layer
The business logic layer
Setting up access security
Web pages and controllers
Summary
4
Models – Structuring the Application Data
Models – Structuring the Application Data
Organizing application features into modules
Creating models
Creating fields
Extending models
Relationships between models
Computed fields
Model constraints
More model inheritance mechanisms
Summary
5
Import, Export, and Module Data
Import, Export, and Module Data
Understanding external identifiers
Exporting and importing data
Module data
XML data files
Modifying data
Summary
6
The ORM API – Handling Application Data
The ORM API – Handling Application Data
Understanding the ORM decorators
Using the ORM built-in methods
The Mail and Social features API
Summary
7
Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes
Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes
Creating a wizard
Working with the ORM API
Context and domain
Working with recordsets
Summary
8
External API – Integrating with Other Systems
External API – Integrating with Other Systems
Setting up a Python client
Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC
Writing a To-Do client application
Introducing the ERPpeek client
Introducing the OdooRPC library
Summary
9
Backend Views – Design the User Interface
Backend Views – Design the User Interface
Defining the user interface with XML files
The form views
View semantic components
Dynamic views
List views
Search views
Calendar views
Graph and pivot views
Other view types
Summary
10
Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb
Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb
About Kanban boards
Designing Kanban views
The QWeb templating language
Inheritance on Kanban views
Custom CSS and JavaScript assets
Summary
11
Reports and Server-Side QWeb
Reports and Server-Side QWeb
Installing wkhtmltopdf
Creating business reports
QWeb report templates
Presenting data in reports
Rendering images
Report totals
Defining paper formats
Enabling language translation in reports
Reports based on custom SQL
Summary
12
Creating Website Frontend Features
Creating Website Frontend Features
Roadmap
Our first web page
Building websites
Website forms
Summary
13
Debugging and Automated Tests
Debugging and Automated Tests
Unit tests
Development tools
Summary
14
Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances
Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances
Available prebuilt packages
Installing dependencies
Multiprocessing workers
Using a reverse proxy
Server and module updates
Summary
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Index
Index

Custom CSS and JavaScript assets

As we have seen, Kanban views are mostly HTML and make heavy use of CSS classes. We have introduced some frequently used CSS classes provided by the standard product, but for best results, modules can also add their own CSS.

We won't go into detail here on how to write CSS code, but it's relevant to explain how a module can add its own CSS (and JavaScript) web assets. Odoo assets for the backend are declared in the assets_backend template. To add our module assets, we should extend that template. The XML file for this is usually placed inside a views/ module subdirectory.

The following is a sample XML file to add a CSS and a JavaScript file to the todo_kanban module, and it could be at todo_kanban/views/todo_kanban_assets.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<odoo> 
  <template id="assets_backend" inherit_id="web.assets_backend" 
    name="Todo Kanban Assets" > 
    <xpath expr="." position="inside"> 
      <link rel...
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