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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

Designing kanban views


We will be adding the kanban view to the Todo tasks with a new addon module. It would be simpler to add it directly to the todo_ui module. However, for a clearer explanation, we will use a new module and avoid too many, possibly confusing, changes in the already created files.

We will name this new addon module as todo_kanban and create the usual initial files. Edit the descriptor file todo_kanban/__manifest__.py as follows:

{'name': 'To-Do Kanban', 
 'description': 'Kanban board for to-do tasks.', 
 'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
 'depends': ['todo_ui'], 
 'data': ['views/todo_view.xml'] } 

Also add an empty todo_kanban/__init__.py file, to make the directory Python importable, as required for Odoo addon modules.

Next, create the XML file where our shiny new kanban view will go and set kanban as the default view on the to-do task's window action. This should be in todo_kanban/views/todo_view.xml, containing the following code:

<?xml version="1.0...