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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Exploring the form view structure

Form views are the main way users can interact with data records. Form views can either follow a simple layout or a business document layout, similar to a paper document. In this section, we'll learn how to design these business document views and how to use the elements and widgets that are available.

In Chapter 8, Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes, we created a library checkout model and prepared a basic form for it. We will revisit and enhance it in this section.

The following screenshot shows what the form view will look like when we're done:

Figure 10.3 – The enhanced Checkouts form view

You can refer to this screenshot while we gradually add the different elements throughout this chapter.

Using business document views

Historically, organizations use paper forms to support their internal processes. Business application models support digital versions of these paper forms...