Chapter 13. Customizing Odoo for Your Business
In this chapter, we will cover one of the greatest advantages of Odoo—the ability to customize the software to meet the unique needs of your business. Fortunately, Odoo provides a great deal of flexibility in which you can customize Odoo without writing any code or developing a module. We will begin by learning how to activate the Odoo developer mode and then back up our database. This is a very important practice when customizing Odoo. Next, we will learn how to add fields to our database and display them on forms and views. Note that customizing Odoo is a very broad topic that would take many chapters to describe. You might consider this to be an introduction to customization.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
- Entering and exiting the developer mode
- Backing up our database
- Restoring data from a backup
- Appending custom fields to models
- Displaying our newly added fields upon forms and list views
