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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

XML data files


While CSV files provide a simple and compact format to represent data, XML files are more powerful and give more control over the loading process. Their filenames are not required to match the model to be loaded. This is because the XML format is much richer and that information is provided by the XML elements inside the file.

We already used XML data files in the previous chapters. The user interface components, such as views and menu items, are in fact records stored in system models. The XML files in the modules are the means used to load these records into the instance database.

To showcase this, we will add a second data file to the todo_app module, data/todo_task.xml, with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<odoo noupdate="1"> 
  <!-- Data to load -->
  <record model="todo.task" id="todo_task_c"> 
    <field name="name">Reinstall Odoo</field> 
    <field name="user_id" ref="base.user_root" /> 
    <field name="date_deadline...