You're reading from Odoo 14 Development Cookbook Rapidly build, customize, and manage secure and efficient business apps using Odoo's latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200319

Length 784 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (4):

Parth Gajjar

Alexandre Fayolle

Holger Brunn

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

4. Chapter 4: Application Models

5. Chapter 5: Basic Server-Side Development

6. Chapter 6: Managing Module Data

7. Chapter 7: Debugging Modules

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques

9. Chapter 9: Backend Views

10. Chapter 10: Security Access

11. Chapter 11: Internationalization

12. Chapter 12: Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printing

13. Chapter 13: Web Server Development

14. Chapter 14: CMS Website Development

15. Chapter 15: Web Client Development

16. Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

17. Chapter 17: In-App Purchasing with Odoo

18. Chapter 18: Automated Test Cases

19. Chapter 19: Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh

20. Chapter 20: Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

21. Chapter 21: Performance Optimization

22. Chapter 22: Point of Sale

23. Chapter 23: Managing Emails in Odoo

24. Chapter 24: Managing the IoT Box

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Using a float field with configurable precision

When using float fields, we may want to let the end user configure the decimal precision that is to be used. In this recipe, we will add a Cost Price field to the Library Books model, with the user-configurable decimal precision.

Getting ready

We will continue using the my_library add-on module from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to apply dynamic decimal precision to the model's cost_price field:

Activate Developer Mode from the link in the Settings menu (refer to the Activating the Odoo developer tools recipe in Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment). This will enable the Settings | Technical menu.
Access the decimal precision configurations. To do this, open the Settings top menu and select Technical | Database Structure | Decimal Accuracy. We should see a list of the currently defined settings.
Add a new configuration, setting Usage to Book Price, and...