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Odoo 12 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 12 Development Essentials Fast-track your Odoo development skills to build powerful business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532470
Length 404 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application 4. Extending Modules 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. Models – Structuring the Application Data 7. Recordsets – Working with Model Data 8. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 9. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 10. Backend Views – Designing the User Interface 11. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 12. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 13. Creating Website Frontend Features 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating models


Models are at the heart of the Odoo framework. They describe the application's data structure, and are the bridge between the application server and the database storage. Business logic can be implemented around models to provide the application's features, and user interfaces are created on top of them.

Next, we will learn about a model's generic attributes, used to influence their behavior, and the several model types we have available to use—regular, transient, and abstract.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Model attributes

Model classes can use additional attributes that control some of their behaviors. These are the most commonly used attributes:

  • _name is the internal identifier for the Odoo model we are creating. This is mandatory when creating a new model.
  • _description is a user-friendly title for the model's records, shown when the model is viewed in the user interface. This is optional but recommended.
  • _order sets the default order to use when the model's records are browsed, or shown in a list...
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