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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition
Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition: Over 120 unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications , Second Edition

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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Managing Odoo Server Instances

In this chapter, we will learn the following recipes:

  • Configuring the addons path
  • Updating the addon modules list
  • Standardizing your instance directory layout
  • Installing and upgrading local addon modules
  • Installing addon modules from GitHub
  • Applying changes to addons
  • Applying and trying proposed pull requests

Introduction

In Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, we saw how to set up an Odoo instance using only the standard core addons, which are shipped by the editor. This chapter focuses on adding noncore addons to an Odoo instance, be it your own addons, or third-party addons, such as the ones maintained by the Odoo Community Association (OCA).

About the terminology – addon versus module

In this book, we will use the term addon or addon module to refer to a Python package that respects the expected format to be installed in Odoo. The user interface often uses the words app or module for this, but we prefer keeping the term module for Python modules or packages that are not necessarily Odoo addons, and app for addon modules that are properly defined as applications, that is, have an entry in the main menu of Odoo.
...

Configuring the addons path

The addons path is a configuration parameter that lists the directories, which will be searched for addon modules by Odoo when it initializes a new database.

Directories listed in the addons path are expected to contain subdirectories, each of which is an addon module.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have an instance ready, with a configuration file generated as described in Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment. The source code of Odoo is available in ~/odoo-dev/odoo, and the configuration file is in
~/odoo-dev/my-instance.cfg.

How to do it…

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Updating the addon modules list

As we said in the preceding recipe, when you add a directory to the addons path, just restarting the Odoo server is not enough to be able to install one of the new addon modules. A specific action is required for Odoo to scan the addons path and update the list of the available addon modules.

Getting ready

Start your instance and connect to the instance using the Administrator account and activate the developer mode (refer to Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment).

How to do it…

To update the list of the available...

Standardizing your instance directory layout

We recommend that your development and production environments all use a similar directory layout. This standardization will prove helpful when you have to perform maintenance operations, and it will also ease your day-to-day work.

This recipe creates a directory structure that groups files having similar life cycles or similar purpose together in standardized subdirectories. Feel free to alter this structure to suit your needs, but ensure that you have this documented somewhere.

How to do it…

To create the proposed instance layout, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create one directory per instance:
$ mkdir ~/odoo-dev/projectname
$ cd ~/odoo-dev/projectname
  1. Create...

Installing and upgrading local addon modules

The core of the functionality of Odoo comes from the addon modules. You have a wealth of addons available as part of Odoo itself as well as addon modules that you can download from the internet or write yourself.

In this recipe, we will show how to install and upgrade addon modules through the web interface and from the command line.

The main benefits of using the command line for these operations are being able to act on more than one addon at a time and having a clear view of the server logs as the installation or update progresses, which is very useful when in the development mode or when scripting the installation of an instance.

Getting ready

You have an Odoo instance with...

Installing addon modules from GitHub

GitHub is a great source of third-party addons. A lot of Odoo partners use GitHub to share the addons they maintain internally, and the Odoo Community Association (OCA) collectively maintains several hundreds of addons on GitHub. Before starting to write your own addon, ensure that you check that nothing already exists that you can use as is or as a starting point.

This recipe will show you how to clone the partner-contact project of the OCA from GitHub and make the addon modules it contains available in your instance.

Getting ready

Suppose you want to change the way addresses are handled in your instance; your customer needs a third field in addition to Odoo's two fields (street and...

Applying changes to addons

Most addons available on GitHub are subject to change and do not follow the rules that Odoo enforces for its stable release. They may receive bug fixes or enhancements, including issues or feature requests that you submitted, and these changes may introduce database schema changes or updates in the data files and views. This recipe explains how to install the updated versions.

Getting ready

Suppose you reported an issue with partner_address_street3 and received a notification that the issue was solved in the last revision of the 11.0 branch of the partner-contact project; you will want to update your instance with this latest version.

...

Applying and trying proposed pull requests

In the GitHub world, a Pull Request (PR) is a request made by a developer for the maintainers of a project to include some new developments. Such a PR may contain a bug fix or a new feature. These requests are reviewed and tested before being pulled in the main branch.

This recipe explains how to apply a PR to your Odoo project in order to test an improvement or a bug fix.

Getting ready

As in the previous recipe, suppose you reported an issue with partner_address_street3 and received a notification that the issue was solved in a pull request, which is not yet merged in the 11.0 branch of the project. The developer asks you to validate the fix in PR #123. You need to update a test...

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  • •Get the most up-to-date guide on Odoo 11 to create custom and reusable modules
  • •Interconnect your application with other systems by implementing web APIs
  • •Understand the mechanisms powering the Odoo framework to build robust enterprises

Description

Odoo is a full-featured open source ERP with a focus on extensibility. The flexibility and sustainability of open source are also a key selling point of Odoo. It is built on a powerful framework for rapid application development, both for back-end applications and front-end websites. Version 11 offers better usability and speed: a new design (as compared to the current Odoo Enterprise version) and a mobile interface. The book starts by covering Odoo installation and administration and Odoo Server deployment. It then delves into the implementation of Odoo modules, the different inheritance models available in Odoo. You will then learn how to define access rules for your data; how to make your application available in different languages; how to expose your data models to end users on the back end and on the front end; and how to create beautiful PDF versions of your data. By the end of the book, you will have a thorough knowledge of Odoo and will be able to build effective applications by applying Odoo development best practices

Who is this book for?

If you're a Python developer and want to develop highly efficient business applications with the latest Odoo framework (or if you just want a hands on problem solution book for all your Odoo Development related issues), this book is for you! Some experience with the JavaScript programming language and web development is required to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • • Install and manage Odoo environments and instances
  • • Use models to define your application s data structures
  • • Add business logic to your applications
  • • Add automated tests and learn how to debug Odoo apps
  • • Learn about the access security model and internationalization features
  • • Customize websites built with Odoo, by writing your own templates and providing new snippets for use in the website builder
  • • Extend the web client with new widgets and make RPC calls to the server

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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Installing the Odoo Development Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Odoo Server Instances Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Server Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Odoo Addon Modules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Application Models Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Basic Server-Side Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Module Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Debugging and Automated Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Backend Views Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Access Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Internationalization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printouts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Web Server Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Web Client Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
CMS Website Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Every point touched in the book is explained well with incremental, practical and concise recipes...Was thinking to give 4 even 5 starts, yet for the price of the book one would have expected some point of sales recipes.POS is a very important Odoo application, specially for retail or small business, yet so many people neglect or give for granted in many ways. I will never understand why.You can see it's very important to me, hence -2 starts.
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Leider ist das Format total zerrissen und als Kindleversion nicht verwendbar.Es sind pro Zeile teilweise nur einzelne Buchstaben zu sehen.
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