Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

Fast track your development skills to build resourceful, open-source business applications with Odoo 11

Key Features

• Discover the latest technical capabilities in Odoo 11 while you build your own app
• Program business logic and manipulate data to implement specific business rules in your applications
• Implement automated tests to add modules and techniques and debug module business logic

Book Description

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition.

We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics.

The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.

What you will learn

• Install Odoo from source
• Manage Odoo server instances
• Create a new Odoo application from scratch covering the most frequently used elements
• Develop new models and use inheritance to extend/modify existing models
• Use ORM methods, both in the Odoo server and from external clients
• Create Kanban views using QWeb effectively
• Develop custom web and website CMS pages
• Use external API to integrate Odoo with external applications

Who This Book Is For

Odoo 11 Development Essentials caters to developers who are familiar with Python and MVC design and now want to build effective business applications using Odoo.

Table of Contents

1. Quick introduction to the Odoo Developer Mode and concepts
2. Installing and organizing the development environment
3. Your first Odoo application - a practical overview
4. Models - structuring the application data
5. Access Control and Data Files
6. The ORM API - Handling application data
7. Application Logic - Supporting Business Processes
8. External API - Integrating with other systems
9. Backend views
10. Kanban views and client side QWeb-
11. Reports and server side Qweb
12. Creating Website front end features
13. Tests and debugging
14. Deploying and maintaining production instances

Daniel Reis has been an active contributor to the Odoo community and a speaker at Odoo and other tech events. He is a member of the Board at the Odoo Community Association (OCA) and partner and advisor at Odoo integrator ThinkOpen Solutions. Daniel has a degree in Applied Mathematics, a Master in Business Administration, and an IT consultancy background; he currently works as Applications Manager at Securitas Portugal.