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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

Module data


Modules use data files to load their default data, demonstration data, user interface definitions, and other configurations into the database. This can be done using both CSV and XML files.

Note

For completeness, the YAML file format can also be used, but it is seldom used to load data, and we won't discuss it. In fact, it is scheduled for deprecation in Odoo 12. Still, for a usage example you can look at the l10n_be official module, and for information on the YAML format visit: http://yaml.org/.

CSV files used by modules are exactly the same as those we have seen and used for the import feature. When using them in modules, the filename must match the name of the model to which the data will be loaded. For example, a CSV file loading data into the todo.task model must be named todo.task.csv.

A common usage of data CSV files is for accessing security definitions loaded into the ir.model.access model. They usually use CSV files that are named ir.model.access.csv.

Demonstration data

Odoo...