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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)

Adding a menu item and window actions

The most obvious way to make a new feature available to users is by adding a menu item. When you click on a menu item, something happens. This recipe walks you through how to define that something.

We will create a top-level menu and its sub-menu, which will open a list of all customers.

This can also be done using the web user interface, through the settings menu, but we prefer to use XML data files since this is what we'll have to use when creating our add-on modules.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will need a module with a dependency on the account module, as the account module adds new fields to the res.partner model to differentiate between customer and supplier records. So, if you are using an existing module, please add the account dependency in the manifest. Alternatively, you can grab the initial module from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Odoo-14-Development-Cookbook-Fourth-Edition/tree/master/Chapter09/00_initial_module...