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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

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

View semantic components


We have seen how to organize the content in a form using structural components, such as header, group, and notebook. Now we can take a closer look at the semantic components, such as fields and buttons, and what we can do with them.

Fields

View fields have a few attributes available to them. Most of them have values taken from their definition in the model, but these can be overridden in the view.

Generic attributes, which do not depend on the field type, are:

  • name identifies the field database name.
  • string is the label text, to be used if we want to override the label text provided by the model definition.
  • help is tooltip text shown when you hover the pointer over the field, and it allows you to override the help text provided by the model definition.
  • placeholder is suggestion text to display inside the field.
  • widget allows us to override the default widget used for the field. We will explore the available widgets in a moment.
  • options is a JSON data structure with additional...