Defining the Model representation and order

Models have structural attributes defining their behavior. These are prefixed with an underscore and the most important is _name, which defines the internal global identifier for the model.

There are two other attributes we can use, one to set the field used as a representation or title for the records, and another one to set the order they are presented in.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have an instance ready with my_module, as described in Chapter 4, Creating Odoo Addon Modules.

How to do it...

The my_module instance...