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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

Discovering and installing new modules


We now have an addon module with minimal structure, but it can be installed in our Odoo instance. Before we can do that, our Odoo server needs to know about this new directory we are using for our custom modules, and needs to make them available for installation.

That's what we will be doing next.

Adding to the addons path

To have new modules available for Odoo, we need to make sure the directory containing the module is in the addons path, then update the Odoo module list. Both actions have been explained in detail in the previous chapter, but here we will continue with a brief overview of what is needed.

We will position ourselves in our work directory and start the server with the appropriate addons path configuration:

$ cd ~/odoo-dev
$ ./odoo/odoo-bin -d todo --addons-path="custom-addons,odoo/addons" --save

The --save option saves the options you used in a configuration file. This spares us from repeating them every time we restart the server; just run...