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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Length 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Creating a wizard

Wizards are user interface patterns that provide rich interaction for the user, usually to provide input for an automated process.

As an example, the checkout module will provide a wizard for library users to mass email borrowers. For example, they could select the oldest checkouts with borrowed books and send them all a message, requesting for the books to be returned.

Users start by going to the checkouts list view, selecting the checkout records to use, and then selecting a Send Messages option from the Action context menu. This will open the wizard form, allowing them to write the message subject and body. Clicking the Send button will send an email to each person that borrowed the selected checkouts.

The wizard model

A wizard displays a form view to the user, usually as a dialog window, with some fields to be filled in and buttons to trigger some business logic. These will then be used for the wizard's logic.

This is implemented using the...