Step 2 – Creating a new application

Some Odoo modules create new applications, and others add features or modify existing applications. While the technical components involved are about the same, an app is expected to include a few characteristic elements. Since the Library module is a new app, we should include them in our module.

An app is expected to have the following:

• An icon, to be presented in the app list
• A top-level menu item, under which all the app's menu items will be placed
• Security groups for the app so that it can be enabled only for users that need it, and where access security will be set

The app icon is an icon.png file in the module's static/description/ subdirectory. This was done earlier, in the Adding an icon section.

Next, we will take care of the app's top-level menu.

Adding a top menu item

Since we are creating a new app, it should have a main menu item. On the Community Edition (CE), this is shown as...