You're reading from Odoo 15 Development Essentials Enhance your Odoo development skills to create powerful business applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Length 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules

6. Section 2: Models

7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data

8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data

9. Section 3: Business Logic

10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data

11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems

13. Section 4: Views

14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

Odoo is a business application framework, providing all the tools necessary to quickly build apps. A uniform web client provides the business user interface. But organizations are not isolated from the world. Being able to also interact with external users is needed to support efficient processes. For this, Odoo supports a web interface.

The internal user web client is sometimes referred to as the backend, and the external user interface as the frontend. The frontend provides portal features, accessible to portal user logins. It also provides public features, accessible without the need for a login, referred as website features.

The portal complements backend apps, providing self-service features to external users, such as viewing and paying for their orders, or submitting a support ticket.

The website features are built on top of the Odoo Content Management System (CMS), which allows you to build web pages, including easy...