You're reading from Odoo 14 Development Cookbook Rapidly build, customize, and manage secure and efficient business apps using Odoo's latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200319

Length 784 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (4):

Parth Gajjar

Alexandre Fayolle

Holger Brunn

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

4. Chapter 4: Application Models

5. Chapter 5: Basic Server-Side Development

6. Chapter 6: Managing Module Data

7. Chapter 7: Debugging Modules

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques

9. Chapter 9: Backend Views

10. Chapter 10: Security Access

11. Chapter 11: Internationalization

12. Chapter 12: Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printing

13. Chapter 13: Web Server Development

14. Chapter 14: CMS Website Development

15. Chapter 15: Web Client Development

16. Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

17. Chapter 17: In-App Purchasing with Odoo

18. Chapter 18: Automated Test Cases

19. Chapter 19: Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh

20. Chapter 20: Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

21. Chapter 21: Performance Optimization

22. Chapter 22: Point of Sale

23. Chapter 23: Managing Emails in Odoo

24. Chapter 24: Managing the IoT Box

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Chapter 15: Web Client Development

Odoo's web client, or backend, is where employees spend most of their time. In Chapter 9, Backend Views, you saw how to use the existing possibilities that backends offer. Here, we'll take a look at how to extend and customize those possibilities. The web module contains everything related to the user interface in Odoo.

All of the code in this chapter will depend on the web module. As you know, Odoo has two different editions (Enterprise and Community). Community uses the web module for user interfaces, while the Enterprise version uses an extended version of the Community web module, which is the web_enterprise module.

The Enterprise version provides some extra features compared with the Community web, including mobile compatibility, searchable menus, and material design. We'll work on the Community Edition here. Don't worry—the modules developed in Community work perfectly in the Enterprise Edition because, internally...