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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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Initializing a new Odoo database


To create and initialize an Odoo database with the Odoo data schema, we should run the Odoo server using the -d option:

$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo-bin -d testdb

This will take a couple of minutes to initialize the testdb database, and it will end with an INFO log message, Modules loaded. Note that it might not be the last log message, and it can be in the last three or four lines. With this, the server will be ready to listen to client requests.

Note

Since Odoo 9.0, the database is automatically created if it doesn't exist yet. In version 8.0, this was not so, and you needed to create the database manually, using the createdb command.

By default, this will initialize the database with demonstration data, which is often useful for development databases. This is the equivalent to having the Load demonstration data checkbox ticked when creating a new database from the user interface.

To initialize a database without demonstration data, add the --without-demo=all option...