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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

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Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618921
Pages 774 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Authors (4):
Parth Gajjar Parth Gajjar
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Parth Gajjar is an Odoo expert with a deep understanding of the Odoo framework. He started his career at Odoo and spent 7 years in the R&D department at Odoo India. During his time at Odoo, he worked on several key features, including a marketing automation app, mobile application, report engine, domain builder, and more. He also worked as a code reviewer and helped manage the code quality of the new features. Later, he started his own venture named Droggol and now provides various development services related to Odoo. He loves working on Odoo and solving real-world business problems with different technologies. He often gives technical training to Odoo developers.
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Alexandre Fayolle Alexandre Fayolle
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Alexandre Fayolle started working with Linux and free software in the mid-1990s and quickly became interested in the Python programming language. In 2012, he joined Camptocamp to share his expertise on Python, PostgreSQL, and Linux with the team implementing Odoo. He currently manages projects for Camptocamp and is strongly involved in the Odoo Community Association. In his spare time, he likes to play jazz on the vibraphone.
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Holger Brunn Holger Brunn
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Holger Brunn has been a fervent open source advocate since he came into contact with the open source market sometime in the nineties. He has programmed for ERP and similar systems in different positions since 2001. For the last 10 years, he has dedicated his time to TinyERP, which became OpenERP and evolved into Odoo. Currently, he works at Therp BV in the Netherlands as a developer and is an active member of the Odoo Community Association.
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Daniel Reis Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances 3. Server Deployment 4. Creating Odoo Add-On Modules 5. Application Models 6. Basic Server-Side Development 7. Module Data 8. Debugging 9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques 10. Backend Views 11. Access Security 12. Internationalization 13. Automation, Workflows, and Printouts 14. Web Server Development 15. CMS Website Development 16. Web Client Development 17. In-App Purchasing with Odoo 18. Automated Test Cases 19. Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh 20. Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo 21. Performance Optimization 22. Point of Sale 23. Manage Emails in Odoo 24. IoT Box 25. Other Book You May Enjoy

Module Data

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using external IDs and namespaces
  • Loading data using XML files
  • Using the noupdate and forcecreate flags
  • Loading data using CSV files
  • Add-on updates and data migration
  • Deleting records from XML files
  • Invoking functions from XML files

In order to avoid repeating a lot of code, we'll make use of the models that were defined in Chapter 5, Application Models. To follow these examples, make sure you grab the code for the my_library module from Chapter05/r6_ hierarchy_model/my_library.

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Profile icon Parth Gajjar
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Parth Gajjar is an Odoo expert with a deep understanding of the Odoo framework. He started his career at Odoo and spent 7 years in the R&D department at Odoo India. During his time at Odoo, he worked on several key features, including a marketing automation app, mobile application, report engine, domain builder, and more. He also worked as a code reviewer and helped manage the code quality of the new features. Later, he started his own venture named Droggol and now provides various development services related to Odoo. He loves working on Odoo and solving real-world business problems with different technologies. He often gives technical training to Odoo developers.
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Profile icon Alexandre Fayolle
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Alexandre Fayolle started working with Linux and free software in the mid-1990s and quickly became interested in the Python programming language. In 2012, he joined Camptocamp to share his expertise on Python, PostgreSQL, and Linux with the team implementing Odoo. He currently manages projects for Camptocamp and is strongly involved in the Odoo Community Association. In his spare time, he likes to play jazz on the vibraphone.
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Profile icon Holger Brunn
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Holger Brunn has been a fervent open source advocate since he came into contact with the open source market sometime in the nineties. He has programmed for ERP and similar systems in different positions since 2001. For the last 10 years, he has dedicated his time to TinyERP, which became OpenERP and evolved into Odoo. Currently, he works at Therp BV in the Netherlands as a developer and is an active member of the Odoo Community Association.
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Profile icon Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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