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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis

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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

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By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.

Preface

Preface

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Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts

Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts

The Odoo architecture

The Developer mode

Introducing the Library project

Adding a field to an existing Model

Adding Menus, Models, and Views

Configuring access control security

About Odoo base Models

Summary

Installing and Organizing the Development Environment

Installing and Organizing the Development Environment

Setting up a host for the Odoo server

Installing Odoo from source

Initializing a new Odoo database

A word about Odoo product versions

More server configuration options

Developing from a remote workstation

Installing additional modules

Summary

Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview

Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview

Creating a new addon module

Discovering and installing new modules

The model layer

The view layer

The business logic layer

Setting up access security

Web pages and controllers

Summary

Models – Structuring the Application Data

Models – Structuring the Application Data

Organizing application features into modules

Creating models

Creating fields

Extending models

Relationships between models

Computed fields

Model constraints

More model inheritance mechanisms

Summary

Import, Export, and Module Data

Import, Export, and Module Data

Understanding external identifiers

Exporting and importing data

Module data

XML data files

Modifying data

Summary

The ORM API – Handling Application Data

The ORM API – Handling Application Data

Understanding the ORM decorators

Using the ORM built-in methods

The Mail and Social features API

Summary

Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

Creating a wizard

Working with the ORM API

Context and domain

Working with recordsets

Summary

External API – Integrating with Other Systems

External API – Integrating with Other Systems

Setting up a Python client

Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC

Writing a To-Do client application

Introducing the ERPpeek client

Introducing the OdooRPC library

Summary

Backend Views – Design the User Interface

Backend Views – Design the User Interface

Defining the user interface with XML files

The form views

View semantic components

Dynamic views

List views

Search views

Calendar views

Graph and pivot views

Other view types

Summary

Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

About Kanban boards

Designing Kanban views

The QWeb templating language

Inheritance on Kanban views

Custom CSS and JavaScript assets

Summary

Reports and Server-Side QWeb

Reports and Server-Side QWeb

Installing wkhtmltopdf

Creating business reports

QWeb report templates

Presenting data in reports

Rendering images

Report totals

Defining paper formats

Enabling language translation in reports

Reports based on custom SQL

Summary

Creating Website Frontend Features

Creating Website Frontend Features

Roadmap

Our first web page

Building websites

Website forms

Summary

Debugging and Automated Tests

Debugging and Automated Tests

Unit tests

Development tools

Summary

Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

Available prebuilt packages

Installing dependencies

Multiprocessing workers

Using a reverse proxy

Server and module updates

Summary

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Installing Odoo from source

Ready-to-install Odoo packages can be found at https://nightly.odoo.com, available as Windows (.exe), Debian (.deb), CentOS (.rpm), and source code tarballs (.tar.gz).

As developers, we will prefer installing them directly from the GitHub repository. This will end up giving us more control over versions and updates.

Odoo is built using the Python programming language, and it uses the PostgreSQL database for data storage; these are the two main requirements of an Odoo host. To run Odoo from the source, we will first need to install the Python libraries it depends on. The Odoo source code can then be downloaded from GitHub. While we can download a ZIP file or tarball, we will see that it's better if we get the sources using the Git version control application; it'll help us to have it installed on our Odoo host as well.

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