Odoo 12 Development Essentials · 4th Edition by Reis, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Quick Start Using the Developer Mode

Technical requirements Introducing the to-do list project Basic concepts

The Odoo architecture Odoo community versus Odoo enterprise Odoo version policy

Preparing a basic work environment

Using an Odoo SaaS trial database Installing Odoo on Windows Installing Odoo using Docker containers Other installation options Creating a work database Enabling the developer mode

Modifying an existing model to add a field

Adding a field to a Model Adding a field to a form view

Creating a new Model Configuring access control security

Security groups Security access control lists Security record rules The superuser account

Creating menu items Creating views

List views Form views Search views

Summary Questions

Preparing the Development Environment

Technical requirements Setting up a host for the Odoo server

Installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux Installing a Linux server

Installing Odoo from source

Installing the PostgreSQL database Installing Odoo system dependencies Installing Odoo from source Initializing a new Odoo database

Managing Odoo databases More server configuration options

Odoo server configuration files Changing the listening port Database selection options Managing server log messages

Installing additional modules

Finding community modules Configuring the add-ons path

Installing Odoo in a Python virtual environment

Downloading and installing add-on modules from PyPI

The server development mode Summary

Your First Odoo Application

Technical requirements Overview of the library project Creating a new addon module

Preparing the addons path Creating the module directory and manifest Adding an icon Choosing a license Installing a new module Upgrading modules

Creating a new application

Adding the app's top menu item Adding security groups

Adding automated tests

Testing business logic Testing access security

The model layer

Creating the data model

Setting up access security

Adding access control security Row-level access rules

The view layer

Adding menu items Creating the form view Business document form views Adding action buttons Using groups to organize forms The complete form view Adding list and search views

The business logic layer

Adding business logic

Web pages and controllers Summary Questions Further Reading

Extending Modules

Technical requirements Learning project – extending the Library app In-place Model extension

Adding fields to a Model Modifying existing fields

Modifying Views and data

Extending Views Selecting extension points with XPath Modifying data

More Model inheritance mechanisms

Copying features with prototype inheritance Embedding Models using delegation inheritance Extending Models using mixin classes

Extending Python methods Extending web controllers and templates

Extending Web Controllers Extending QWeb Templates

Summary Questions Further reading

Import, Export, and Module Data

Technical requirements Understanding the external identifier concept

How external identifiers work Finding external identifiers

Exporting and importing CSV data files

Exporting data Importing data Related records in CSV data files

Adding module data

Demonstration data

Using XML data files

The noupdate data attribute Defining records in XML

Setting field values directly Setting values using expressions Setting values on many-to-one relation fields Setting values on to-many relation fields

Shortcuts for frequently used models Other actions in XML data files

Deleting records Calling model methods

Summary Questions Further reading

Models – Structuring the Application Data

Technical requirements Learning project – improving the Library app Creating models

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

Creating fields

Basic field types Common field attributes Special field names

Relationships between models

Many-to-one relationships One-to-many inverse relationships Many-to-many relationships Hierarchical relationships Flexible relationships using Reference fields

Computed fields

Searching and writing to computed fields Storing computed fields Related fields

Model constraints

SQL model constraints Python model constraints

About the Odoo base Models Summary

Recordsets – Working with Model Data

Technical requirements Using the shell command The execution environment

Environment attributes The environment context Modifying the recordset execution environment

Querying data with recordsets and domains

Creating recordsets Domain expressions

Accessing data on recordsets

Accessing data on records Accessing relational fields Accessing date and time values Converting text-represented dates and times

Writing on records

Writing with object-style value assignment Writing with the write() method Writing date and time values Creating and deleting records

Composing recordsets Low-level SQL and database transactions Summary

Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

Technical requirements Learning project – the library_checkout module Using stages for document-centered workflows The ORM method decorators

Methods for recordsets – @api.multi Methods for singleton records – @api.one Class static methods – @api.model On change methods Other model method decorators

Using the ORM built-in methods

Methods for writing model data Methods for data import and export Methods to support the user interface

The message and activity features

Message subtypes Posting messages Adding followers

Creating a wizard

The wizard model The wizard form The wizard business logic

Using log messages Raising exceptions Unit tests

Adding unit tests Running tests Setting up tests Writing test cases Testing exceptions

Development tools

Server development options Debugging

The Python debugger   A sample debugging session Alternative Python debuggers Printing messages and logging 

Inspecting and killing running processes

Summary Further reading

External API – Integrating with Other Systems

Technical requirements Learning project – a client to catalogue books Setting up Python on the client machine Connecting to Odoo API using XML-RPC Running server methods using XML-RPC Search and read API methods The Library client XML-RPC interface The Library client user interface Using the OdooRPC library About the ERPpeek client Summary Further reading

Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

Technical requirements Menu items Window Actions Form view structure

Business document views The header

Header buttons The stage pipeline Using states instead of stages

The document sheet Title and subtitle Grouping the form content Tabbed notebooks

Fields

Labels for fields Field widgets Relational fields

Buttons

Smart buttons

Dynamic view elements

On-change events Dynamic attributes

List views Search views Other view types

Activity views Calendar views Pivot views Graph views

Summary Further reading

Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

Technical requirements About Kanban boards

Kanban views

Designing Kanban views

Priority, Kanban state, and color Kanban card elements The Kanban card layout Adding a Kanban card option menu Actions in Kanban views

The QWeb template language

The QWeb JavaScript evaluation context Dynamic attributes by string substitution – t-attf Dynamic attributes by expressions – t-att Loops – t-foreach Conditionals – t-if Rendering values – t-esc and t-raw Set values on variables – t-set Call and reuse other templates – t-call Dynamic attributes using dictionaries and lists

Inheritance on Kanban views Custom CSS and JavaScript assets Summary Further reading

Reports and Server-Side QWeb

Technical requirements Installing wkhtmltopdf Creating business reports QWeb report templates Presenting data in reports Rendering images Report totals Defining paper formats Enabling language translation in reports Reports based on custom SQL Summary Further reading

Creating Website Frontend Features

Technical requirements Learning project – the Library self-service Our first web page

Hello World using a QWeb template HelloCMS!

Building websites

Adding CSS and JavaScript assets The checkout-list controller The checkout QWeb template The checkout detail page

Summary Further reading

Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

Technical requirements Installing Odoo from source code

Installing dependencies Preparing a dedicated system user Installing from the source code Setting up the configuration file Multiprocessing workers

Setting up Odoo as a system service

Creating a systemd service Creating an Upstart or sysvinit service Checking the Odoo service from the command line

Setting up an nginx reverse proxy Configuring and enforcing HTTPS

Creating a self-signed SSL certificate Configuring HTTPS access on nginx Caching static content

Server and module updates

Creating a staging environment Updating Odoo source code

Summary Further reading

Assessments

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