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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition Over 120 unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471817
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alexandre Fayolle Alexandre Fayolle
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances 3. Server Deployment 4. Creating Odoo Addon Modules 5. Application Models 6. Basic Server-Side Development 7. Module Data 8. Debugging and Automated Testing 9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques 10. Backend Views 11. Access Security 12. Internationalization 13. Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printouts 14. Web Server Development 15. Web Client Development 16. CMS Website Development 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Changing existing views – View inheritance

Up until now, we ignored the existing views and declared completely new ones. While this is didactically sensible, you'll rarely be in situations where you want to define a new view for an existing model. What you'll rather want to do is to slightly modify the existing views, be it to simply have it show a field you added to the model in your addon, or to customize it to your needs or your customers.

In this recipe, we'll change the default partner form to show the record's last modification date and also allow searching for that. Then, we'll also show this column in the partners' list view.

How to do it...

  1. Inject the field in the default...
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