You're reading from Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Pages 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode

3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules

6. Section 2: Models

7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data

8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data

9. Section 3: Business Logic

10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data

11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems

13. Section 4: Views

14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using buttons

Buttons allow the user to trigger actions, such as opening another view or running business logic in a server function. They were introduced previously in this chapter, when we discussed the form header, but they can also be added anywhere in form and list views.

Buttons support the following attributes:

string is the button text label, or the HTML alt text when an icon is used.
type is the type of action to perform. Possible values include object, to call a Python method, or action, to run a window action.
name identifies the specific action to perform, according to the chosen type: either a model method name or the database ID of a window action to run. The %(<xmlid>)d formula can be used to translate an XML ID into the necessary database ID when the view is being loaded.
args is used when type="object" is used to pass additional parameters to the method call.
context sets the values on the context. This could be used in the...