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Odoo 15 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 15 Development Essentials Enhance your Odoo development skills to create powerful business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200067
Length 548 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Understanding messaging data models

A relevant technical area you might need to work with is the messaging-related models used by the Chatter widget found in many forms. These features are provided by the Discuss module with a technical name of mail, so it needs to be installed before the following menu items are available.

The relevant technical models can be found in the Settings | Technical | Discuss menu. The most important options found there are listed here:

  • Message, or mail.message, stores each message. It is related to a resource, a particular record in a model, through the Mail Thread abstract model.
  • Message Subtype, or mail.message.subtype, is used for each message. The basic subtypes are Note, for internal discussions, Discussion, for outside messages, and Activities, for scheduled activities. These are available for any model. Other subtypes, usually model-specific, can be added to identify different events. This allows the configuring of default subscriptions...
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