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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)

Logging user changes in a chatter

The Odoo framework provides a built-in facility to log field changes in a chatter. In this recipe, we will enable logging on some of the fields, so when changes are made in them, Odoo will add the logs in the chatter.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe, Managing the email alias. In this recipe, we will log changes from a few fields in the library.book model.

How to do it...

Modify the definitions of the fields, to enable logs for the fields when you change them. This is shown in the following code snippet:

class LibraryBookRent(models.Model):
    _name = 'library.book.rent'
    _inherit = ['mail.thread', 'mail.activity.mixin']
    book_id = fields.Many2one('library.book', 'Book', required=True)
    borrower_id = fields.Many2one('res.partner&apos...