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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

Creating a wizard


Suppose our To-Do app users regularly need to set the deadlines and person responsible for a large number of tasks. They could use an assistant to help with this. It should allow them to pick the tasks to be updated and then choose the deadline date and/or the responsible user to set for them.

Wizards are forms that get input from users, then use it for further processing. They can be used for simple tasks, such as asking for a few parameters and running a report, or for complex data manipulations, such as the use case we just described. Other more complex cases can involve several chained forms, where finishing a form opens up the next one where we can proceed a step further into the process.

For our case, this is what the wizard will look like:

We will implement this feature in a new module,  todo_wizard.

We should start by creating the corresponding directory, and the todo_wizard/__manifest__.py description, with the following code:

{  'name': 'To-do Tasks Management Assistant...
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