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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

Dynamic views


View elements also support a few dynamic attributes that allow views to dynamically change their appearance or behavior depending on field values. We may have on change events, able change values on other fields while editing data on a form, or have fields be mandatory or visible only when certain conditions are met.

On change events

The on change mechanism allows us to change values in other form fields when a particular field is changed. For example, the on change on a Product field can set the Price field to a default value whenever the product is changed.

In older versions, the on change events were defined at the view level, but since Version 8.0 they have been defined directly on the Model layer, without the need for any specific markup on the views. This is done by creating methods to perform the calculations, and by using @api.onchange('field1', 'field2') to bind it to fields. The on change methods are discussed in more detail in Chapter 6, The ORM API – Handling Application...

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