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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

Custom CSS and JavaScript assets


As we have seen, Kanban views are mostly HTML and make heavy use of CSS classes. We have introduced some frequently used CSS classes provided by the standard product, but for best results, modules can also add their own CSS.

We won't go into detail here on how to write CSS code, but it's relevant to explain how a module can add its own CSS (and JavaScript) web assets. Odoo assets for the backend are declared in the assets_backend template. To add our module assets, we should extend that template. The XML file for this is usually placed inside a views/ module subdirectory.

The following is a sample XML file to add a CSS and a JavaScript file to the todo_kanban module, and it could be at todo_kanban/views/todo_kanban_assets.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<odoo> 
  <template id="assets_backend" inherit_id="web.assets_backend" 
    name="Todo Kanban Assets" > 
    <xpath expr="." position="inside"> 
      <link rel...
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