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

Understanding the configuration properties and company parameters

Another important menu in the technical options is Settings | Technical | User Parameters. You can find two options there: System Parameters and Company Properties.

System Parameters, or ir.config_parameter, stores global configuration options. Some are defaults that can be adjusted, while others are set when some options are selected in the General Settings option. It is a simple key/value list—for example, the web.base.url option stores the Odoo server Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and can be used to create links in email templates.

Company Properties, or ir.property, is where data for multi-company fields is stored. Some fields can have different values depending on the active company. These are also known as property fields.

For example, the partner fields Account Receivable (property_account_receivable_id), relevant for customers, and Account Payable (property_account_payable_id), relevant for suppliers...