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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
4.5 (2)
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

Understanding messaging data models

A relevant technical area you might need to work with is the messaging-related models used by the Chatter widget found in many forms. These features are provided by the Discuss module with a technical name of mail, so it needs to be installed before the following menu items are available.

The relevant technical models can be found in the Settings | Technical | Discuss menu. The most important options found there are listed here:

  • Message, or mail.message, stores each message. It is related to a resource, a particular record in a model, through the Mail Thread abstract model.
  • Message Subtype, or mail.message.subtype, is used for each message. The basic subtypes are Note, for internal discussions, Discussion, for outside messages, and Activities, for scheduled activities. These are available for any model. Other subtypes, usually model-specific, can be added to identify different events. This allows the configuring of default subscriptions...