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Odoo Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo Development Essentials Fast track your development skills to build powerful Odoo business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784392796
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Data Serialization and Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views – Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. QWeb – Creating Kanban Views and Reports 9. External API – Integration with Other Systems 10. Deployment Checklist – Going Live Index

Adding sharing capability to the To-Do app

Our To-Do application now allows users to privately manage their own to-do tasks. Won't it be great to take the app to another level by adding collaboration and social networking features to it? We will be able to share tasks and discuss them with other people.

We will do this with a new module to extend the previously created To-Do app to add these new features. Here is what we expect to achieve by the end of this chapter:

Adding sharing capability to the To-Do app

Road map for the user sharing features

Here is our work plan for the feature extensions to be implemented:

  • Add fields to the Task model, such as the user who owns the task
  • Modify the business logic to operate only on the current user's tasks, instead of all tasks the user is able to see
  • Add the necessary fields to the views
  • Add social networking features: the message wall and the followers

We will start creating the basic skeleton for the module alongside the todo_app module. Following the installation example in Chapter...

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