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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 10 Development Essentials Explore the functionalities of Odoo to build powerful business applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884887
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Reis Daniel Reis
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views - Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code 9. QWeb and Kanban Views 10. Creating QWeb Reports 11. Creating Website Frontend Features 12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

Our first web page

We will create an addon module for our website features. We can call it todo_website. To introduce the basics of Odoo web development, we will implement a simple Hello World web page. Imaginative, right?

As usual, we will start creating it's manifest file. Create the todo_website/__manifest__.py file with:

{  
  'name': 'To-Do Website', 
  'description': 'To-Do Tasks Website', 
  'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
  'depends': ['todo_kanban']} 

We are building on top of the todo_kanban addon module, so that we have all the features available added to the To-do Tasks model throughout the book.

Notice that right now we are not depending on the website addon module. While website provides a useful framework to build full featured websites, the basic web capabilities are built into the core framework. Let's explore them.

Hello World!

To provide our first web page, we will add a controller object....

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