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Odoo Development Cookbook

Odoo Development Cookbook

By : Holger Brunn, Alexandre Fayolle, Daniel Reis
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Odoo Development Cookbook

Odoo Development Cookbook

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By: Holger Brunn, Alexandre Fayolle, Daniel Reis
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Overview of this book

Odoo is a full-featured open source ERP with a focus on extensibility. The flexibility and sustainability of open source is also a key selling point of Odoo. It is built on a powerful framework for rapid application development, both for back-end applications and front-end websites. The book starts by covering Odoo installation and administration, and provides a gentle introduction to application development. It then dives deep into several of the areas that an experienced developer will need to use. You’ll learn implement business logic, adapt the UI, and extend existing features.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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Who this book is for
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What you need for this book
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Sections
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment
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1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment
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Introduction
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Easy installation of Odoo from source
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Managing Odoo environments using the start command
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Managing Odoo server databases
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Storing the instance configuration in a file
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Activating the Odoo developer tools
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Updating Odoo from source
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2. Managing Odoo Server Instances
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2. Managing Odoo Server Instances
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Introduction
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Configuring the addons path
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Updating the addon modules list
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Standardizing your instance directory layout
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Installing and upgrading local addon modules
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Installing addon modules from GitHub
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Applying changes to addons
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Applying and trying proposed pull requests
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3. Creating Odoo Modules
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3. Creating Odoo Modules
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Introduction
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Creating and installing a new addon module
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Completing the addon module manifest
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Organizing the addon module file structure
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Adding models
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Adding Menu Items and Views
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Using scaffold to create a module
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4. Application Models
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4. Application Models
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Introduction
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Defining the Model representation and order
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Adding data fields to a model
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Using a float field with configurable precision
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Adding a monetary field to a Model
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Adding relational fields to a Model
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Adding a hierarchy to a Model
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Adding constraint validations to a Model
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Adding computed fields to a Model
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Exposing Related fields stored in other models
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Adding dynamic relations using Reference fields
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Adding features to a Model using inheritance
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Using Abstract Models for reusable Model features
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Using Delegation inheritance to copy features to another Model
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5. Basic Server Side Development
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5. Basic Server Side Development
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Introduction
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Defining model methods and use the API decorators
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Reporting errors to the user
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Obtaining an empty recordset for a different model
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Creating new records
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Updating values of recordset records
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Searching for records
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Combining recordsets
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Filtering recordsets
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Traversing recordset relations
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Extending the business logic defined in a Model
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Extending write() and create()
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Customizing how records are searched
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6. Advanced Server Side Development Techniques
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6. Advanced Server Side Development Techniques
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Introduction
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Change the user performing an action
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Call a method with a modified context
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Execute raw SQL queries
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Write a wizard to guide the user
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Define onchange methods
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Call onchange methods on the server side
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Port old API code to the new API
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7. Debugging and Automated Testing
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7. Debugging and Automated Testing
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Introduction
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Producing server logs to help debug methods
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Using the Odoo shell to interactively call methods
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Using the Python debugger to trace method execution
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Writing tests for your module using YAML
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Writing tests for your module using Python unit tests
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Running server tests
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Using the Odoo Community Association maintainer quality tools
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8. Backend Views
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8. Backend Views
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Introduction
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Adding a menu item and window action
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Having an action open a specific view
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Adding content and widgets to a form view
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Adding buttons to forms
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Passing parameters to forms and actions: Context
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Defining filters on record lists: Domain
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List views
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Search views
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Changing existing views: View inheritance
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Document-style forms
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Dynamic form elements using attrs
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Embedded views
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Kanban views
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Show kanban cards in columns according to their state
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Calendar views
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Graph and pivot views
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QWeb reports
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9. Module Data
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9. Module Data
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Using external IDs and namespaces
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Loading data using XML files
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Using the noupdate and forcecreate flags
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Loading data using CSV files
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Loading data using YAML files
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Addon updates and data migration
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10. Access Security
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10. Access Security
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Create security groups and assign them to users
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Add security access to models
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Limit access to fields in models
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Limit record access using record rules
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Using security group to activate features
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11. Internationalization
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11. Internationalization
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Installing a language and configure user preferences
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Configure language-related settings
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Translate texts through the web client user interface
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Exporting translation strings to a file
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Use gettext tools to ease translations
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Import translation files
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12. Automation and Workflows
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12. Automation and Workflows
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Introduction
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Using Kanban stages and features
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Creating server actions
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Adding messaging and tracking features
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Using Python code server actions
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Using automated actions on time conditions
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Using automated actions on event conditions
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Inspecting built-in workflows
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13. Web Server Development
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13. Web Server Development
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Introduction
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Make a path accessible from the network
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Restrict access to web accessible paths
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Consume parameters passed to your handlers
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Modify an existing handler
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Using the RPC API
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14. CMS Website Development
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14. CMS Website Development
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Introduction
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Extending CSS and JavaScript for the website
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Creating or modifying templates - QWeb
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Offering snippets to the user
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15. Web Client Development
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15. Web Client Development
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Introduction
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Creating custom widgets
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Using client-side QWeb templates
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Making RPC calls to the server
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Writing tests for client side code
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Debugging your client side code
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16. Server Deployment
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16. Server Deployment
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Installing Odoo for production
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Adapting the configuration file for production
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Set up Odoo as a system service
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Configure a reverse proxy and SSL
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Use buildout for repeatable builds
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Activating the Odoo developer tools

When using Odoo as a developer, you need to know how to activate Developer Mode in the web interface to access the advanced settings menu and developer information.

How to do it...

To activate Developer Mode in the web interface:

  1. Connect to your instance and authenticate (not necessarily as admin; this function is available to all users, but the Administrator has more tools available).
  2. Click on the down arrow next to your user name in the top right corner of the page .
    How to do it...
  3. In the drop-down menu, click on About.
  4. In the dialog box which is displayed, click on Activate the developer mode in the top right corner.
    How to do it...

    Note

    It is also possible to activate the developer mode by editing the URL: before the # sign, insert ?debug=. For instance, if you are starting from: http://localhost:8069/web#menu_id=102&action=94, then you need to change this to: http://localhost:8069/web?debug=#menu_id=102&action=94.

  5. To exit developer mode, you can edit the URL and remove that string, close your browser tab and open a new one, or use the Leave Debug Mode option at the bottom of the debug drop-down menu next to the user menu in the top right of the screen.

    How to do it...

How it works...

When in developer mode, three things happen:

  • The JavaScript and CSS code sent to the browser is not minified, which means that the web development tools of your browser are easy to use for debugging the JavaScript code (more on this in Chapter 15, Web Client Development).
  • You get tooltips when hovering over a field in a form view or over a column in list view providing technical information about the field (internal name, type, and so on).
  • A drop-down menu with a Bug icon is displayed next to the user's menu in the top right corner giving access to technical information about the model being displayed, the various related view definitions, the workflow, custom filter management, and so on.

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Caution!

Test your addons both with and without developer mode, as the unminified versions of the JavaScript libraries can hide bugs which only bite you in the minified version.

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