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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Length 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

The message and activity features

Odoo has global messaging and activity planning features available, all of which are provided by the Discuss application, and a mail technical name.

The messaging features are added by the mail.thread model and make a message widget on form views available, also known as Chatter. This widget allows you to log notes or send messages to other people. It also keeps a history of the messages that have been sent, and it is also used by automatic processes to log progress tracking messages.

The same app also provides activity management features through the mail.activity.mixin model. The activity widget can be added to the form view to allow users to schedule and track the history of activities.

Adding message and activity features

The mail module provides the mail.thread abstract class, which is used to add the messaging features to any model, and mail.activity.mixin, which does the same for the planned activity features. In Chapter 4, Extending...