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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Essentials Develop and customize business applications with Odoo 11

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477796
Length 336 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Organizing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview 4. Models – Structuring the Application Data 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. The ORM API – Handling Application Data 7. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 9. Backend Views – Design the User Interface 10. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 11. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 12. Creating Website Frontend Features 13. Debugging and Automated Tests 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

The view layer

The view layer describes the user interface. Views are defined using XML, which is used by the web client framework to generate data-aware HTML views.

We have menu items that can activate actions which can render views. For example, the Users menu item processes an action also called Users, which in turn renders a series of views. There are several view types available, such as the list (sometimes called tree for historical reasons) and form views, and the filter options made available in the top-right search box are also defined by a particular type of view, the search view.

The Odoo development guidelines state that the XML files defining the user interface should be placed inside a views/ subdirectory.

Let's start creating the user interface for our To-Do application.

In the next sections, we will make gradual improvements and frequent module upgrades to...

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