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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

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

Graph and pivot views


Graph views provide a graphical view of the data, in the form of a chart. The current fields available in the To-Do Tasks are not good candidates for a chart, so we will add one to use on such a view.

In the TodoTask class, at the todo_stage/models/todo_task_model.py file, add:

effort_estimate = fields.Integer('Effort Estimate') 

It also needs to be added to the To-Do Task form, so that we can add values for it on the existing records and are able to check this new view.

Now let's add the To-Do Tasks graph view:

<record id="view_graph_todo_task" model="ir.ui.view"> 
  <field name="model">todo.task</field> 
  <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
    <graph type="bar"> 
      <field name="stage_id" /> 
      <field name="effort_estimate" type="measure" /> 
    </graph> 
  </field> 
</record> 

The graph view element can have a type attribute that can be set to bar (the default), pie, or line. In the case of bar, the additional...