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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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Extensibility is a key feature of the Odoo framework. We can build add-on modules that change or add features to other existing add-ons at the several layers needed to implement features in Odoo. With this, our projects will be able to reuse and extend third-party add-on modules in a clean and modular way.

At the model layer, we use the _inherit model attribute to get a reference to an existing model and then make in-place modifications to it. The field objects inside the model also support incremental definitions so that we can redeclare an existing field, providing only the attributes to change.

Additional model inheritance mechanisms allow you to reuse data structures and business logic. Delegation inheritance, which is activated with the delegate=True attribute on a many-to-one relationship field (or the old-style inherits model attribute), makes all the fields from the related model available and reuses its data structure. Prototype inheritance, which uses _inherit...

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Daniel Reis

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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