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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

Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

When a new database is created, an initial data model is populated, providing basic entities that can be used for Odoo Apps. This chapter identifies the most relevant basic entities and explains how to inspect them from the user interface (UI), as well as what their role is.

While this understanding is not indispensable for you to be able to develop Odoo apps, it will provide a solid base to understand the Odoo framework core concepts and help to leverage the technical menu to address more complex requirements or issues.

The following topics are discussed in this chapter:

  • Understanding the contacts data model
  • Understanding the users and companies data model
  • Understanding the security-related information repository
  • Understanding the database structure models
  • Understanding the UI-related repository
  • Understanding the configuration properties and company parameters
  • Understanding the messaging data model...