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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Book Image

Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is fast becoming the reference open source platform for business applications thanks to the fact that it provides the infrastructure needed for developers to deliver software solutions for any business process quickly. Odoo's layered module approach makes it particularly effective for combining and extending features. This updated fifth edition is a tutorial-style introduction to essential Odoo development topics. The book starts by covering the development essentials for building business applications and takes you through Odoo installation and configuration, gradually transitioning from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You'll then learn how to develop your first Odoo application, while covering topics such as models and views. Later chapters will get you up to speed with using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress, you’ll get equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features available in Odoo 12 and beyond, such as in-memory ORM and computed writable fields. Finally, you’ll gain insights into building business logic and using the Odoo API to integrate with various applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build business apps from scratch using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
6
Section 2: Models
9
Section 3: Business Logic
13
Section 4: Views
18
Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

The message and activity features

Odoo has global messaging and activity planning features available, all of which are provided by the Discuss application, and a mail technical name.

The messaging features are added by the mail.thread model and make a message widget on form views available, also known as Chatter. This widget allows you to log notes or send messages to other people. It also keeps a history of the messages that have been sent, and it is also used by automatic processes to log progress tracking messages.

The same app also provides activity management features through the mail.activity.mixin model. The activity widget can be added to the form view to allow users to schedule and track the history of activities.

Adding message and activity features

The mail module provides the mail.thread abstract class, which is used to add the messaging features to any model, and mail.activity.mixin, which does the same for the planned activity features. In Chapter 4, Extending...