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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 10 Development Essentials Explore the functionalities of Odoo to build powerful business applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884887
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development 2. Building Your First Odoo Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views - Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code 9. QWeb and Kanban Views 10. Creating QWeb Reports 11. Creating Website Frontend Features 12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

Chapter 2. Building Your First Odoo Application

Developing in Odoo most of the time means creating our own modules. In this chapter, we will create our first Odoo application and learn the steps needed to make it available to Odoo and install it.

Inspired by the notable http://todomvc.com/ project, we will build a simple To-Do application. It should allow us to add new tasks, mark them as completed, and finally clear the task list of all the already completed tasks.

We will get started by learning the basics of a development workflow: set up a new instance for your work, create and install a new module, and update it to apply the changes you make along with the development iterations.

Odoo follows an MVC-like architecture, and we will go through the layers during our implementation of the To-Do application:

  • The model layer, defining the structure of the app's data
  • The view layer, describing the user interface
  • The controller layer, supporting the...
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Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Published in: Nov 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781785884887
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