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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is a powerful framework known for rapid application development. Its latest release, Odoo 12, introduces tons of new features. With this book, you’ll learn how to develop powerful Odoo applications from scratch, using all the latest features. This Odoo cookbook starts by covering Odoo installation and deployment on the server. Next, you’ll explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You’ll create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You’ll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS). This book is not just limited to backend development; the advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets will help you build beautiful UI elements. As you move forward, you’ll gain insights into website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated tests. Finally, you’ll learn the latest concepts like multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, and IoT Box. By the end of the book, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build powerful Odoo applications. The development best practices used in this book will undoubtedly come handy when you are working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Backend Views

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipe:

  • Adding a menu item and window actions
  • Having an action open a specific view
  • Adding content and widgets to a form view
  • Adding buttons to forms
  • Passing parameters to forms and actions – Context
  • Defining filters on record lists – Domain
  • Defining list views
  • Defining search views
  • Displaying attachments on the side of the form view
  • Changing existing views – view inheritance
  • Defining document-style forms
  • Dynamic form elements using attrs
  • Defining embedded views
  • Defining kanban views
  • Showing kanban cards in columns according to their state
  • Defining calendar and gantt views
  • Defining graph and pivot views
  • Defining the cohort view
  • Defining the dashboard view

Throughout this chapter, we will assume that you have a database with the base add-on installed and an empty Odoo add-on module where you can add...