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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)

Managing the email alias

Email aliasing is the feature in Odoo that is used to create a record through incoming emails. The simplest example of an email alias is sales teams. You just need to send an email to [email protected] and Odoo will create a new record for crm.lead in the sales team. In this recipe, we will create one email alias to create a book's borrowing record.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe, Sending emails using the QWeb template. We will create our email alias with the [email protected] email address. If you send an email to this email address with the book's name in the subject, a record is created in the library.book.rent model.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add an email alias for the library.book.rent model:

  1. Add the email alias data in the my_library/data/mail_template.xml file:
    <record id="mail_alias_rent" model="mail.alias">
     &...