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Odoo 12 Development Essentials

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532470
Length 404 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Creating a wizard


Suppose our library users have the need to send messages to groups of borrowers. For example, they could select the oldest checkouts with borrowed book, and send them all a message requesting the return of the books. This can be implemented through a wizard. Wizards are forms that get input from users, then use it for further processing.

Our users will start by selecting from the checkouts list the records to consider, then select the wizard's option from the view top menu. This will open the wizard form, where we can write the message's subject and body. Once we click on Send,  this message will be posted in all of the checkouts selected.

The wizard model

A wizard displays a form view to the user, usually as a dialog window, with some fields to be filled in. These will then be used for the wizard logic.

 

This is implemented using the same model/view architecture as for regular views, but the supporting model is based on models.TransientModel instead of models.Model. This type...

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