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

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Understanding the users and companies data model

Users and companies are central elements of the Odoo data model. They can be accessed in the Settings | Users & Companies menu. The menu options available are listed here:

User, or res.users, stores the system users. These have an implicit partner record in the partner_id field, where the name, email, image, and other contact details are stored.
Access Group, or res.group, stores the security access groups. This menu is only available with the developer mode enabled. Users belonging to a group will be granted that group's privileges. Groups can inherit other groups, meaning that they will also provide the privileges from these inherited groups.
Company, or res.company, stores the organization's details and the company-specific configurations. It has an implicit partner record, holding the address and contact details, stored in the partner_id field. A default company is provided on new databases, with the...