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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 10 Development Essentials Explore the functionalities of Odoo to build powerful business applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884887
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance ā€“ Extending Existing Applications 4. Module Data 5. Models ā€“ Structuring the Application Data 6. Views - Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic ā€“ Supporting Business Processes 8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code 9. QWeb and Kanban Views 10. Creating QWeb Reports 11. Creating Website Frontend Features 12. External API ā€“ Integrating with Other Systems 13. Deployment Checklist ā€“ Going Live

The model layer

Now that Odoo knows about our new module, let's start by adding a simple model to it.

Models describe business objects, such as an opportunity, sales order, or partner (customer, supplier, and so on). A model has a list of attributes and can also define its specific business.

Models are implemented using a Python class derived from an Odoo template class. They translate directly to database objects, and Odoo automatically takes care of this when installing or upgrading the module. The mechanism responsible for this is theĀ Object Relational Model (ORM).

Our module will be a very simple application to keep to-do tasks. These tasks will have a single text field for the description and a checkbox to mark them as complete. We should later add a button to clean the to-do list of the old, completed tasks.

Creating the data model

The Odoo development guidelines state that the Python files for models should be placed inside a models subdirectory. For simplicity, we won&apos...

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