You're reading from Odoo 14 Development Cookbook Rapidly build, customize, and manage secure and efficient business apps using Odoo's latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200319

Length 784 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (4):

Parth Gajjar

Alexandre Fayolle

Holger Brunn

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

4. Chapter 4: Application Models

5. Chapter 5: Basic Server-Side Development

6. Chapter 6: Managing Module Data

7. Chapter 7: Debugging Modules

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques

9. Chapter 9: Backend Views

10. Chapter 10: Security Access

11. Chapter 11: Internationalization

12. Chapter 12: Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printing

13. Chapter 13: Web Server Development

14. Chapter 14: CMS Website Development

15. Chapter 15: Web Client Development

16. Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

17. Chapter 17: In-App Purchasing with Odoo

18. Chapter 18: Automated Test Cases

19. Chapter 19: Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh

20. Chapter 20: Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

21. Chapter 21: Performance Optimization

22. Chapter 22: Point of Sale

23. Chapter 23: Managing Emails in Odoo

24. Chapter 24: Managing the IoT Box

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Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

Odoo v14 introduced a new JavaScript framework called OWL (short for Odoo Web Library). OWL is a component-based UI framework and uses QWeb templates for structure. OWL is very fast compared to Odoo's legacy widget system and introduces tons of new features, including hooks, reactivity, the autoinstantiation of subcomponents, and more besides. In this chapter, we will learn how to use an OWL component to generate interactive UI elements. We will start from the minimal OWL component and then we will learn about the component's life cycle. Finally, we will create a new field widget for the form view. In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Creating an OWL component
Managing user actions in an OWL component
Making OWL components reactive
Understanding the OWL component life cycle
Adding an OWL field to the form view
Note
The following question may occur to you: Why is Odoo not using some well-known JavaScript...