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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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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

Understanding the other available view types

The form and list views are essential user interface components, but other than them, a few other specific view types can be used.

We're already familiar with the three basic views: form, tree, and search. Beyond these, the following view types are also available in Odoo Community Edition:

  • kanban presents records as cards that can be organized in columns to create Kanban boards.
  • activity presents a summary of scheduled activities.
  • calendar present records in a calendar format.
  • graph presents data as a graphical chart.
  • pivot presents data as an interactive pivot table.
  • qweb is used to declare QWeb templates to be used in reports, Kanban views, or web pages. However, this is not a web client-supported view type like forms and lists are.

Kanban views will be presented in depth in Chapter 11, Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb, so they won't be addressed here.

Changes in Odoo 14

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