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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Odoo 12 Development Cookbook 190+ unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618921
Length 774 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances 3. Server Deployment 4. Creating Odoo Add-On Modules 5. Application Models 6. Basic Server-Side Development 7. Module Data 8. Debugging 9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques 10. Backend Views 11. Access Security 12. Internationalization 13. Automation, Workflows, and Printouts 14. Web Server Development 15. CMS Website Development 16. Web Client Development 17. In-App Purchasing with Odoo 18. Automated Test Cases 19. Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh 20. Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo 21. Performance Optimization 22. Point of Sale 23. Manage Emails in Odoo 24. IoT Box 25. Other Book You May Enjoy

Creating custom widgets

As you saw in Chapter 10, Backend Views, we can use widgets to display certain data in different formats. For example, we used widget='image' to display a binary field as an image. To demonstrate how to create your own widget, we'll write one widget that lets the user choose an integer field, but we will display it differently. Instead of an input box, we will display a color picker, so that we can select a color number.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from Chapter 4, Creating Odoo Add-On Modules. In this recipe, we are going to add a new field widget that needs dependency of the web module. Make sure that you have added the dependency onweb in the...

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