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

Finding and installing additional modules

The Odoo ecosystem has a rich community where many modules are available. Installing new modules in an Odoo instance is something that newcomers frequently find confusing. But it doesn't have to be.

Finding community modules

The Odoo Apps store at https://apps.odoo.com is a catalog of modules that can be downloaded and installed on your system.

Another important resource is the Odoo Community Association (OCA), which hosts community-maintained modules. These modules are hosted on GitHub, at https://github.com/OCA, and a searchable index is also provided at https://odoo-community.org/shop.

The OCA is a non-profit organization that was created to coordinate community contributions, promote software quality, development best practices, and open source values. You can learn more about the OCA at https://odoo-community.org.

To add a module to an Odoo installation, we could just copy it into the addons directory, alongside the...