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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Odoo 12 Development Cookbook 190+ unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618921
Length 774 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Parth Gajjar Parth Gajjar
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Daniel Reis Daniel Reis
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Holger Brunn Holger Brunn
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances 3. Server Deployment 4. Creating Odoo Add-On Modules 5. Application Models 6. Basic Server-Side Development 7. Module Data 8. Debugging 9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques 10. Backend Views 11. Access Security 12. Internationalization 13. Automation, Workflows, and Printouts 14. Web Server Development 15. CMS Website Development 16. Web Client Development 17. In-App Purchasing with Odoo 18. Automated Test Cases 19. Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh 20. Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo 21. Performance Optimization 22. Point of Sale 23. Manage Emails in Odoo 24. IoT Box 25. Other Book You May Enjoy

Creating new records

A common requirement when writing business logic methods is creating new records. This recipe explains how to create records of the library.book.category model. For our example, we will add a method that will create dummy categories for the library.book.category model. To trigger this method, we will add a button to the form view.

Getting ready

You need to know the structure of the models for which you want to create a record, especially their names and types, as well as any constraints that exist on these fields (for example, whether some of them are mandatory). For this recipe, we will reuse the my_library module from Chapter 5, Application Models. Take a look at the following example to quickly recall...

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