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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn
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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

2.7 (3)
By: Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn
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Overview of this book

Odoo is a full-featured open source ERP with a focus on extensibility. The flexibility and sustainability of open source are also a key selling point of Odoo. It is built on a powerful framework for rapid application development, both for back-end applications and front-end websites. Version 11 offers better usability and speed: a new design (as compared to the current Odoo Enterprise version) and a mobile interface. The book starts by covering Odoo installation and administration and Odoo Server deployment. It then delves into the implementation of Odoo modules, the different inheritance models available in Odoo. You will then learn how to define access rules for your data; how to make your application available in different languages; how to expose your data models to end users on the back end and on the front end; and how to create beautiful PDF versions of your data. By the end of the book, you will have a thorough knowledge of Odoo and will be able to build effective applications by applying Odoo development best practices
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Title Page
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits
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Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
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Packt Upsell
Contributors
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Contributors
Preface
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Preface
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Installing the Odoo Development Environment
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Installing the Odoo Development Environment
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Introduction
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Easy installation of Odoo from source
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Managing Odoo environments using the start command
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Managing Odoo server databases
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Storing the instance configuration in a file
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Activating the Odoo developer tools
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Updating Odoo from source
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Managing Odoo Server Instances
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Managing Odoo Server Instances
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Introduction
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Configuring the addons path
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Updating the addon modules list
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Standardizing your instance directory layout
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Installing and upgrading local addon modules
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Installing addon modules from GitHub
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Applying changes to addons
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Applying and trying proposed pull requests
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Server Deployment
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Server Deployment
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Introduction
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Installing Odoo for production use
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Adapting the configuration file for production
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Setting up Odoo as a system service
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Configuring a reverse proxy and SSL with nginx and Let's Encrypt
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Using buildout for repeatable builds
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Using Docker to run Odoo
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Creating Odoo Addon Modules
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Creating Odoo Addon Modules
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Introduction
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Creating and installing a new addon module
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Completing the addon module manifest
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Organizing the addon module file structure
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Adding models
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Adding Menu Items and Views
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Adding Access Security
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Using scaffold to create a module
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Application Models
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Application Models
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Introduction
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Defining the Model representation and order
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Adding data fields to a Model
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Using a float field with configurable precision
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Adding a monetary field to a Model
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Adding relational fields to a Model
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Adding a hierarchy to a Model
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Adding constraint validations to a Model
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Adding computed fields to a Model
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Exposing related fields stored in other Models
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Adding dynamic relations using Reference fields
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Adding features to a Model using inheritance
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Using abstract Models for reusable Model features
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Using delegation inheritance to copy features to another Model
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Basic Server-Side Development
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Basic Server-Side Development
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Introduction
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Defining model methods and using the API decorators
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Reporting errors to the user
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Obtaining an empty recordset for a different model
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Creating new records
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Updating values of recordset records
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Searching for records
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Combining recordsets
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Filtering recordsets
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Traversing recordset relations
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Extending the business logic defined in a Model
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Extending write() and create()
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Customizing how records are searched
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Module Data
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Module Data
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Introduction
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Using external IDs and namespaces
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Loading data using XML files
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Using the noupdate and forcecreate flags
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Loading data using CSV files
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Loading data using YAML files
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Addon updates and data migration
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Debugging and Automated Testing
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Debugging and Automated Testing
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Introduction
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Producing server logs to help debug methods
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Using the Odoo shell to interactively call methods
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Using the Python debugger to trace method execution
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Writing tests for your module using Python unit tests
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Running server tests
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Using the Odoo Community Association maintainer quality tools
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Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques
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Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques
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Introduction
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Changing the user performing an action
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Calling a method with a modified context
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Executing raw SQL queries
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Writing a wizard to guide the user
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Defining onchange methods
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Calling onchange methods on the server side
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Defining a model based on a SQL view
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Backend Views
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Backend Views
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Introduction
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Adding a menu item and window action
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Having an action open a specific view
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Adding content and widgets to a form view
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Adding buttons to forms
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Passing parameters to forms and actions – Context
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Defining filters on record lists – Domain
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List views
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Search views
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Changing existing views – View inheritance
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Document-style forms
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Dynamic form elements using attrs
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Embedded views
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Kanban views
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Showing kanban cards in columns according to their state
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Calendar and gantt views
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Graph and pivot views
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Access Security
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Access Security
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Creating security groups and assigning them to users
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Adding security access to models
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Limiting access to fields in models
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Limiting record access using record rules
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Using security groups to activate features
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Internationalization
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Internationalization
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Installing a language and configuring user preferences
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Configuring language-related settings
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Translating texts through the web client user interface
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Exporting translation strings to a file
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Using gettext tools to ease translations
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Importing translation files into Odoo
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Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printouts
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Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printouts
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Introduction
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Using Kanban stages and features
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Creating server actions
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Using Python code server actions
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Using automated actions on time conditions
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Using automated actions on event conditions
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Adding messaging and tracking features
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Email templates
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QWeb-based PDF reports
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Producing LibreOffice-based reports with Py3O
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Web Server Development
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Web Server Development
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Introduction
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Making a path accessible from the network
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Restricting access to web accessible paths
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Consuming parameters passed to your handlers
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Modifying an existing handler
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Using the RPC API
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Web Client Development
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Web Client Development
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Introduction
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Creating custom widgets
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Using client-side QWeb templates
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Making RPC calls to the server
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Writing tests for client-side code
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Debugging your client-side code
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CMS Website Development
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CMS Website Development
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Introduction
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Extending CSS and JavaScript for the website
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Creating or modifying templates – QWeb
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Offering snippets to the user
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Leave a review - let other readers know what you think
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Index

Activating the Odoo developer tools

When using Odoo as a developer, you need to know how to activate Developer Mode in the web interface to access the advanced settings menu and developer information.

How to do it...

To activate Developer Mode in the web interface, do as follows:

  1. Connect to your instance and authenticate as admin
  2. Go to the Settings menu
  3. Locate the Share the love card, which should be on the right of the screen:
  4. Click on the Activate the developer mode link
  1. Wait for the UI to reload

Note

It is also possible to activate the developer mode by editing the URL; before the # sign, insert ?debug. For instance, if you are starting from http://localhost:8069/web#menu_id=102&action=94, then you need to change this tohttp://localhost:8069/web?debug=#menu_id=102&action=94.To exit the developer mode, you can do either of these:

  • Edit the URL and remove that string
  • Close your browser tab and open a new one
  • Use the Deactivate the developer mode link displayed in the Share the love card when the Developer mode is active

How it works...

When in developer mode, two things happen:

  1. You get tooltips when hovering over a field in a form view or over a column in list view, providing technical information about the field (internal name, type, and so on)
  2. A drop-down menu with a Bug icon is displayed next to the user's menu in the top-right corner, giving access to technical information about the model being displayed, the various related view definitions, the workflow, custom filter management, and so on

There is a variant of the developer mode—the Developer mode (with assets). This mode behaves as the normal developer mode, but additionally, the JavaScript and CSS code sent to the browser is not minified, which means that the web development tools of your browser are easy to use for debugging the JavaScript code (more on this in Chapter 15, Web Client Development).

Note

Caution! Test your addons both with and without developer mode, as the unminified versions of the JavaScript libraries can hide bugs that only bite you in the minified version.

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