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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Models – Structuring the Application Data

In Chapter 3, Your First Odoo Application - A Practical Overview, we saw an overview of all the main components involved in building an application for Odoo. In these following chapters, it's time to explain the several layers that make up an application—models, views, and business logic—in more detail.

We will extend the To-Do app built in the previous chapter, and take it to another level. What if, instead of only a simple list of tasks, we also have a Kanban board showing the tasks as cards, and organize them into columns according to the stage they're at, such as To Do, Doing, and Done?

The following chapters will work toward this goal. Right now, in this chapter, we will learn how to use models to design the data structures that support applications in general, and our kanban extension in particular.

We will use that to explore the capabilities of models and fields, including defining model relations, adding computed fields, creating...