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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Essentials Develop and customize business applications with Odoo 11

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477796
Length 336 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Organizing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview 4. Models – Structuring the Application Data 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. The ORM API – Handling Application Data 7. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 9. Backend Views – Design the User Interface 10. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 11. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 12. Creating Website Frontend Features 13. Debugging and Automated Tests 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

The model layer

Now that Odoo knows about our new module, let's start by adding a simple model to it.

Models describe business objects, such as an Opportunity, Sales Order, or Partner (customer, supplier, and so on). A model has a list of attributes and can also define its specific business.

Models are implemented using a Python class derived from an Odoo template class. They translate directly to database objects, and Odoo automatically takes care of that when installing or upgrading the module. The component responsible for this is the Object Relational Mapping (ORM).

Our module will be a very simple application to maintain To-Do tasks. These tasks will have a single text field for the description and a checkbox to mark them as complete. We should later add a button to remove the old, completed tasks from the To-Do list.

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