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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
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Book Image

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Mobile app JavaScript

Odoo v10 introduced the Odoo mobile application. It provides a few small utilities to perform mobile actions, such as vibrate phone, show toast message, and scan QR code.

Getting ready

We will be using the my_library module from the previous library. We will show you the toast when we change the value of the color field from the mobile app.

Warning

The Odoo mobile app only supports the Enterprise Edition, so if you don't have the Enterprise Edition, then you cannot test it.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to show a toast message in the Odoo mobile app:

  1. Import web_mobile.rpc in field_widget.js:
    var mobile = require('web_mobile.core');
  2. Modify the clickPill method to display the toast when the user changes the color from the mobile device:
        clickPill: function (ev) {
            var $target = $(ev.currentTarget);
          &...