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You're reading from Odoo 12 Development Essentials Fast-track your Odoo development skills to build powerful business applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789532470

Length 404 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

CRM

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER

2. Preparing the Development Environment

3. Your First Odoo Application

4. Extending Modules

5. Import, Export, and Module Data

6. Models – Structuring the Application Data

7. Recordsets – Working with Model Data

8. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

9. External API – Integrating with Other Systems

10. Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

11. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

12. Reports and Server-Side QWeb

13. Creating Website Frontend Features

14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

15. Assessments

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Understanding the external identifier concept

An external identifier, also called XML ID, is a human-readable string identifier that uniquely identifies a particular record in Odoo. They are important when loading data into Odoo, allowing us to modify an existing data record, or to reference it in other data records.

We will first introduce how external identifiers work and how we can inspect them.

Then, we will learn how to use the web client to find the external identifiers for particular data records, since this is frequently needed when creating add-on modules, thus extending existing features.

How external identifiers work

The actual database identifier for a record is an automatically assigned sequential number, and there is no way to know ahead of time what ID will be assigned to each record during module installation. External identifiers provide a way to reference a related record without the need to know the actual database ID assigned to it. The XML ID provides a convenient alias...