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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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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

Dynamic views


View elements also support a few dynamic attributes that allow views to dynamically change their appearance or behavior depending on field values . We may have on change events, able change values on other fields while editing data on a form, or have fields to be mandatory or visible only when certain conditions are met.

On change events

The on change mechanism allows us to change values in other form fields when a particular field is changed. For example, the on change on a Product field can set the Price field with a default value whenever the product is changed.

In older versions the on change events were defined at the view level, but since version 8.0 they are defined directly on the Model layer, without the need for any specific markup on the views. This is done by creating methods to perform the calculations, and using @api.onchange('field1', 'field2') to bind it to fields. These onchange methods are discussed in more detail in Chapter 7, ORM Application Logic - Supporting...

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