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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. With announcement of Odoo 10, there are many new features added to Odoo and the face of business applications developed with Odoo has changed. This book will not only teach you how to build and customize business applications with Odoo, but it also covers all the new features that Odoo has to offer. This book is the latest resource on developing and customizing Odoo 10 applications. It comes packed with much more and refined content than its predecessor. It will start with building business applications from scratch and will cover topics such as module extensions, inheritance, working with data, user interfaces, and so on. The book also covers the latest features of Odoo 10, in addition to front end development, testing and debugging techniques. The book will also talk about Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Calendar views


As the name suggests, this view type presents the records in a calendar that can be viewed for  month, week, or days periods of time. A calendar view for the To-Do Tasks could look like this:

<record id="view_calendar_todo_task" model="ir.ui.view"> 
  <field name="model">todo.task</field> 
  <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
    <calendar date_start="date_deadline" color="user_id" 
      display="[name], Stage [stage_id]" > 
      <!-- Fields used for the display text --> 
      <field name="name" /> 
      <field name="stage_id" /> 
    </calendar> 
  </field> 
</record> 

The calendar attributes are:

  • date_start is the field for the start date. Mandatory.
  • date_end is the field for the end date. Optional.
  • date_delay is the field with the duration in days, that can be used instead of date_end.
  • all_day provides the name of a Boolean field that is to be used to signal...