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Odoo 15 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 15 Development Essentials Enhance your Odoo development skills to create powerful business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200067
Length 548 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application 5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules 6. Section 2: Models
7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data 8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data 9. Section 3: Business Logic
10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data 11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Section 4: Views
14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface 15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb 17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features 18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance
19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models 20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the external identifier concept

An external identifier, also called an XML ID, is a human-readable string identifier that uniquely identifies a particular record in Odoo. They are important for loading data into Odoo, allowing us to modify an existing data record or reference it in other data records.

First, we will introduce how external identifiers work, and how we can inspect them. Then, we will learn how to use the web client to find the external identifiers for particular data records, since this is frequently needed when creating add-on modules, thus extending existing features.

How external identifiers work

Let's begin by understanding how identifiers work. The actual database identifier for a record is an automatically assigned sequential number, and there is no way to know ahead of time what ID will be assigned to each record during module installation. External identifiers let us reference a related record without the need to know the actual database...

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