Managing Odoo Server Instances
In Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, we looked at how to set up an Odoo instance using only the standard core add-ons that are shipped with the source. As a standard practice to customize Odoo default features, we create a separate module and keep it in a different repository so that you can later upgrade Odoo default and your own repository to keep it clean. This chapter focuses on adding non-core or custom add-ons to an Odoo instance. In Odoo, you can load add-ons from multiple directories. In addition, it is recommended that you load your third-party add-ons or your own custom add-ons from separate folders to avoid conflicts with Odoo core modules. Even Odoo Enterprise Edition is a type of add-ons directory, and you need to load this just like a normal add-ons directory.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Configuring the add-ons path
- Standardizing your instance directory layout
- Installing...
