Understanding the Odoo architecture
Before you can begin understanding Odoo, it is important that you have a basic understanding of the underlying architecture that makes up Odoo applications. Fortunately, you don't have to be an expert developer to understand how the Odoo framework fits together. Each Odoo application has three primary components that make up the final Odoo application. These are models, views, and actions.
Models
In the Odoo framework, models are what hold and manage the data that make up your Odoo application. When you save a sales order in Odoo, the data for the sales order header is stored inside a model appropriately named sale.order. Individual data items such as order date and customer address are known as fields. In this chapter, we will be adding a few fields to the sale.order model inside Odoo.
Views
Models by themselves do not display any information to the end user. Models simply hold and manage the data for the application behind the scenes. Data that is...
