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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Essentials Develop and customize business applications with Odoo 11

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477796
Length 336 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Organizing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview 4. Models – Structuring the Application Data 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. The ORM API – Handling Application Data 7. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 9. Backend Views – Design the User Interface 10. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 11. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 12. Creating Website Frontend Features 13. Debugging and Automated Tests 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Initializing a new Odoo database

To create and initialize an Odoo database with the Odoo data schema, we should run the Odoo server using the -d option:

$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo-bin -d testdb

This will take a couple of minutes to initialize the testdb database, and it will end with an INFO log message, Modules loaded. Note that it might not be the last log message, and it can be in the last three or four lines. With this, the server will be ready to listen to client requests.

Since Odoo 9.0, the database is automatically created if it doesn't exist yet. In version 8.0, this was not so, and you needed to create the database manually, using the createdb command.

By default, this will initialize the database with demonstration data, which is often useful for development databases. This is the equivalent to having the Load demonstration data checkbox ticked when creating a new...

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