Odoo Development Essentials by Reis, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Understanding applications and modules Modifying and extending modules Creating a new module Adding to the addons path Installing the new module Upgrading a module Creating an application model Adding menu entries Creating views – form, tree, and search

Creating a form view Formatting as a business document Adding action buttons Organizing forms using groups The complete form view

Adding list and search views Adding business logic Setting up access control security Row-level access rules Adding an icon to the module Summary

3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications

Adding sharing capability to the To-Do app

Road map for the user sharing features

Extending the to-do task model

Adding fields to a model Modifying existing fields Modifying model's methods

Extending views

Extending tree and search views

More on using inheritance to extend models

Copying features using prototype inheritance Embedding models using delegation inheritance

Using inheritance to add social network features Modifying data

Extending the record rules

Summary

4. Data Serialization and Module Data

Understanding external identifiers

Finding External IDs

Exporting and importing data

Exporting data Importing data Related records in CSV data files

Module data

Demonstration data

XML data files

The data noupdate attribute Defining Records in XML Setting field values Setting values using expressions Setting values for relation fields Shortcuts for frequently used Models Other actions in XML data files

Deleting records Triggering functions and workflows

Summary

5. Models – Structuring the Application Data

Organizing application features into modules Introducing the todo_ui module Creating models

Model attributes Models and Python classes Transient and Abstract models Inspecting existing models

Creating fields

Basic field types Common field attributes Reserved field names

Relations between models

Many to one relations Many to many relations One to many inverse relations Hierarchical relations Referencing fields using dynamic relations

Computed fields

Search and write on computed fields Storing computed fields Related fields

Model constraints Summary

6. Views – Designing the User Interface

Window actions Menu items Context and domain

Session context Domain expressions

Form views

Business views The header status bar

The business flow pipeline Title and subtitle Labels for fields Smart buttons Organizing content in a form Tabbed notebooks

View elements

Buttons Fields

Relational fields Field widgets On-change events

Dynamic views

List views Search views Other types of views

Calendar views Gantt views Graph views

Summary

7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes

To-do wizard

Wizard model Wizard form Wizard business logic Raising exceptions Auto-reloading code changes Actions on the wizard dialog

Working with the server

Using relation fields Querying models Writing on records Transactions and low-level SQL Working with time and dates Working with relation fields Manipulating recordsets Other recordset operations

The execution environment Model methods for client interaction

Overriding the default methods Model method decorators Debugging

Summary

8. QWeb – Creating Kanban Views and Reports

Getting started with kanban board

Kanban views

Design kanban views

Priority and kanban state Kanban view elements The vignette kanban view Actions in kanban views The card kanban view

Adding QWeb dynamic content

Conditional rendering with t-if Rendering values with t-esc and t-raw Loop rendering with t-foreach Dynamic attributes with t-att- prefixes String substitution in attributes with t-attf- prefixes Setting variables with t-set Calling other templates with t-call Other QWeb directives Advanced kanban elements Adding a kanban card option menu Adding colors to kanban cards Using text ellipsis for long texts Custom CSS and JavaScript assets

Creating business reports

Installing wkhtmltopdf QWeb report templates Presenting data in reports Enabling language translation in reports Designing report content Paper formats

Summary

9. External API – Integration with Other Systems

Setting up a Python client Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC

Opening an XML-RPC connection Reading data from the server Calling other methods

Writing a Notes desktop application

Communication layer with Odoo Creating the GUI

Introducing the ERPpeek client

The ERPpeek API The ERPpeek CLI

Summary

10. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

Installing Odoo

Installing from the source code Setting up the configuration file Setting up as a system service

Using a reverse proxy

Setting up nginx for reverse proxy Enforcing HTTPS Nginx optimizations Long polling

Server and module updates Summary

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