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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 10 Development Essentials Explore the functionalities of Odoo to build powerful business applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884887
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views - Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code 9. QWeb and Kanban Views 10. Creating QWeb Reports 11. Creating Website Frontend Features 12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

The QWeb templating language


The QWeb parser looks for special directives in the templates and replaces them with dynamically generated HTML. These directives are XML element attributes, and can be used in any valid tag or element, such as <div>, <span>, or <field>.

Sometimes we want to use a QWeb directive but don't want to place it in any of the XML elements in our template. For those cases, we have a <t> special element that can have QWeb directives, such as a t-if or a t-foreach, but is silent and won't have any output on the final XML/HTML produced.

The QWeb directives will frequently make use of evaluated expressions to produce different results depending on the current record values. There are two different QWeb implementations: client-side JavaScript, and server-side Python.

 The reports and website pages use the server-side Python implementation. On the other hand, kanban views use the client-side JavaScript implementation. This means that the QWeb expression...

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