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Preparing the Development Environment

Before we dive into Odoo development, we need to set up our development environment and learn the basic administration tasks for it.

In this chapter, we will learn how to set up the working environment where we will build our Odoo applications. We will set up an Ubuntu system to host the development server instance. This can be a cloud server, a local network server, or a subsystem in your Windows 10 computer.

We will learn how to do the following:

Set up the host computer, either an Ubuntu system or a Windows 10 system, with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Install Odoo from source, including the installation of the database and the system dependencies
Manage Odoo databases includes creating, dropping, and copying
Configure the Odoo server options
Find and install community add-on modules
Use virtual environments to manage...

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Explore Odoo 12 capabilities to develop business applications

Program business logic and manipulate data to implement specific business rules in your applications

Integrate Python APIs for building customizable and scalable business logic

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Odoo is one of the best platforms for open source ERP and CRM. Its latest version, Odoo 12, brings with it new features and updates in Python packages to develop more customizable applications with additional cloud capabilities. The book begins by covering the development essentials for building business applications. You will start your journey by learning how to install and configure Odoo, and then transition from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You will develop your first Odoo application and understand topics such as models and views. Odoo 12 Development Essentials will also guide you in using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress through the chapters, you will be equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features in Odoo 12, such as cloud integration, to scale your business applications. You will get insights into building business logic and integrating various APIs into your application. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a business application from scratch by using the latest version of Odoo.

What you will learn

Manage Odoo server instances

Create a new Odoo application from scratch using the most frequently used elements

Develop new models and use inheritance to extend existing models

Use ORM methods in the Odoo server and from external clients

Create Kanban views using QWeb effectively

Build custom web and website CMS pages

Use external APIs to integrate Odoo with external applications

Add automated tests and techniques to debug module business logic

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G. Wideman Apr 07, 2019

I post this review after only an initial read and skim. The book doesn't require performing all the step-by-step exercises on an installation of Odoo, but doing so would surely contribute to understanding the material (and trying out related points beyond the book's specifics). I have not done those exercises yet, so can't speak to their detailed accuracy, but since this book has no reviews yet, and books specific to a software version have a short shelf life, I thought I'd post a preliminary review about a crucial aspect of this one.In the past I've found Packt books rather consistently disappointing, shoddy and sometimes outright terrible. Page after page of significant technical and factual errors, incomprehensibly vague word-salad sentences, language translations that looked like they came direct from google translate with no editing, and so on.I want to assure prospective purchasers that this book has none of that. It's written in clear, precise English, for which I commend the author and editors.You can judge from "Look Inside" whether it covers the topics you want to know, and I'll add that in each of those chapters the narrative covers the material in a coherent and comprehensible manner, each topic building to the next. The author goes to some length in sidebar hints and tips to thoughtfully anticipate related points you'll want to know, and also to highlight differences from previous versions.In short, if you have had a previous negative experience with Packt books, you can relax your skepticism for this one.If I have a criticism it would be that while the book has numerous helpful screenshots (of a readable size and competently printed!), it almost completely lacks diagrams; some E-R (or UML) diagrams would have been very useful to further illuminate the models and relationships between them that the narrative discusses. However, this is a shortcoming not at all unique to this book . I would also have liked the book to cover structure and customization of particular modules, such as inventory/products and eCommerce. I suspect that kind of coverage was deliberately outside the scope of the current book, but it would make for a very useful second book, or companion material.That said, "well done" author and team, and I hope that Packt continues with this quality level and better.

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Ignacio Jan 27, 2019

Muchas mejoras en la organización del libro respecto a las precedentes. Incorpora avisos muy útiles sobre las novedades de la versión 12 sin perder de vista las versiones anteriores soportadas por Odoo. Esta edición no es un copia y pega de las anteriores. Ha sido cuidadosamente re elaborada y cubre casi todos los aspectos esenciales para el desarrollador novel (y no tan novel) en Odoo. Libro que merece la compra de las dos ediciones (kindle e impresa) para tener la obra siempre a mano. Felicidades al autor.

Nelson Ramírez Jan 05, 2020

Even you are an Expert or not, I recommend this book. It's imposible to remember all the development tricks. This is a book that will use many times to have a it as a reinforcement. Love it, proud of having it.

Greg Mader Oct 27, 2019

Daniel's book solves a huge problem in the Odoo community-- Documentation. Odoo is the greatest platform most have not heard of, and in part, it is due to the lack of books like this. Daniel's efforts in this and other books have made a tremendous difference for a lot of people.

Rachmat Kosasih Sep 06, 2019

I tried to follow the example, but stuck right at the first exercise.In section Adding a field to a form view, it provides the code for the architecture. I got error response from my Odoo dev server right after key in the closing bracket.Found another err:Create new model for library app, loaded ok, however few paragraph below, under section Setting up access security, it showed wrong warning, instead of model library.book, it showed mode todo.task

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Installing additional modules

Finding community modules

Installing Odoo in a Python virtual environment

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