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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the different model types, such as transient and abstract models, and why these are useful for user interface wizards and mixins, respectively. Other relevant model features include Python and SQL constraints, which can be used to prevent data entry errors.

We also learned about the available field types, as well as all the attributes they support, to be able to represent the business data in the most accurate way possible. We also learned about relationships fields, and how to use them to create relationships between the different entities that are used by our applications.

After that, we saw that models are usually based on the models.Model class, but that we can also use models.Abstract for reusable mixin models and models.Transient for wizards or advanced user interaction dialogs. We saw the general model attributes that are available, such as _order for default sort order and _rec_name for the default field to use for record representation...