In this chapter, we will cover one of the greatest advantages of Odoo: the ability to customize the software to meet the unique needs of your business. Fortunately, Odoo provides a great deal of flexibility, which allows you to customize Odoo without writing any code or developing any modules. We will begin by learning about how to activate Odoo's developer mode and then back up our database, which is a very important practice when customizing Odoo. After that, we will learn about how to add fields to our database and display them on forms and list views. Note that customizing Odoo is a very broad topic that would ideally span across multiple chapters; you might consider this as an introduction to customization.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Understanding the Odoo architecture
- Entering and exiting developer mode ...
