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

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Understanding the contacts data model

Resource models carry the res. prefix on their technical identifiers (IDs). They hold Odoo's basic master data, such as users, companies, and currencies.

A central model for Odoo is the Partner model, also called Contact, with a technical name of res.partner. It is used anywhere an address, person, or organization needs to be represented. Examples are customers, suppliers, contact persons, invoicing or shipping addresses, employees, and applicants. It is also used to complement the contact data for users and configured companies.

While the res.partner model is provided by the Odoo base module and requires no specific app to be installed, to have the corresponding menus available, the Contacts app needs to be installed. These are the relevant Contact related models:

Bank, or res.bank, holds bank identification data, as it turns out to be hard to do business without having a bank involved somehow. Bank data can be browsed from...