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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

Adding CSS and JavaScript assets

Kanban views are mostly HTML and make significant use of CSS classes. In this chapter, some standard CSS classes were introduced in the code examples, but modules can also provide their own CSS.

The generally used convention is to have the asset files inside the /static/src subdirectory.

Module web assets are declared in a manifest file in the assets key. This file is set with a dictionary that maps the assets bundle to be extended and the list of assets to add to it.

This provides the tool to add web assets to an Odoo module, such as CSS and JavaScript assets. These web asset files provide a structured way to better provide user interface elements for a richer user experience.

They can then be used in the module's QWeb templates, as discussed throughout the previous sections in this chapter.

Here is an example for the library_checkout addon module. Edit the __manifest__.py file to add the following:

    &quot...