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Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Cookbook - Second Edition Over 120 unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471817
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alexandre Fayolle Alexandre Fayolle
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Holger Brunn Holger Brunn
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Preface 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances 3. Server Deployment 4. Creating Odoo Addon Modules 5. Application Models 6. Basic Server-Side Development 7. Module Data 8. Debugging and Automated Testing 9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques 10. Backend Views 11. Access Security 12. Internationalization 13. Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printouts 14. Web Server Development 15. Web Client Development 16. CMS Website Development 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the noupdate and forcecreate flags

Most addon modules have different types of data. Some data simply needs to exist for the module to work properly, other data shouldn't even be changed by the user, while most data is meant to be changed as per the user's pleasure and is only provided as a convenience. This recipe will detail how to address the different types. First, we'll write a field in an already existing record, and then we'll create a record that is supposed to be recreated during a module update.

How to do it...

We can enforce different behaviors from Odoo when loading data by setting certain attributes on the enclosing <odoo> element or the <record> element itself:

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