Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the internal structures of the Odoo framework, provided by information repository (ir) and resource (res) models.
The Contacts model is central for storing all people and address data in Odoo, and installing the Contacts app adds the UI for this model and related data. Understanding how company contacts can have child contacts and addresses is important to effectively use Odoo. The Users & Companies menu, from the Settings app, was also discussed, to introduce Users, Access Groups, and Companies. The role of Access Groups to grant access privileges to Users is a key idea here. The remaining relevant elements are exposed in the Technical menu of the Settings app. Let's review some key ideas here addressed in the chapter.
Starting from the top of the menu, the Discuss submenu holds the message and activities data model, and a key idea is how subtypes are used to control automatic notifications. The Actions menu exposes the actions...
