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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition Over 120 unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471817
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alexandre Fayolle Alexandre Fayolle
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Holger Brunn Holger Brunn
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances 3. Server Deployment 4. Creating Odoo Addon Modules 5. Application Models 6. Basic Server-Side Development 7. Module Data 8. Debugging and Automated Testing 9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques 10. Backend Views 11. Access Security 12. Internationalization 13. Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printouts 14. Web Server Development 15. Web Client Development 16. CMS Website Development 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extending the business logic defined in a Model

When defining a model that extends another model, it is often necessary to customize the behavior of some methods defined on the original model. This is a very easy task in Odoo, and one of the most powerful features of the underlying framework.

We will demonstrate this by extending a method that creates records to add a new field in the created records.

Getting ready

If you want to follow the recipe, ensure that you have the my_module addon from Chapter 4, Creating Odoo addon Modules, with the loan wizard defined in the Writing a wizard to guide the user recipe from Chapter 9, Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques.

Create a new addon module called library_loan_return_date...

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