Odoo Development Essentials

1: GETTING STARTED WITH ODOO DEVELOPMENT
Setting up a host for the Odoo server
Installing Odoo from source
Initializing a new Odoo database
A word about Odoo product versions
More server configuration options
Developing from your workstation
Enabling the on-board technical tools
Installing third-party modules
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2: BUILDING YOUR FIRST ODOO APPLICATION
Understanding applications and modules
Modifying and extending modules
Creating a new module
Adding to the addons path
Installing the new module
Upgrading a module
Creating an application model
Adding menu entries
Creating views – form, tree, and search
Adding list and search views
Adding business logic
Setting up access control security
Row-level access rules
Adding an icon to the module
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3: INHERITANCE – EXTENDING EXISTING APPLICATIONS
Adding sharing capability to the To-Do app
Extending the to-do task model
Extending views
More on using inheritance to extend models
Using inheritance to add social network features
Modifying data
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4: DATA SERIALIZATION AND MODULE DATA
Understanding external identifiers
Exporting and importing data
Module data
XML data files
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5: MODELS – STRUCTURING THE APPLICATION DATA
Organizing application features into modules
Introducing the todo_ui module
Creating models
Creating fields
Relations between models
Computed fields
Model constraints
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6: VIEWS – DESIGNING THE USER INTERFACE
Window actions
Menu items
Context and domain
Form views
View elements
List views
Search views
Other types of views
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7: ORM APPLICATION LOGIC – SUPPORTING BUSINESS PROCESSES
To-do wizard
Working with the server
The execution environment
Model methods for client interaction
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8: QWEB – CREATING KANBAN VIEWS AND REPORTS
Getting started with kanban board
Design kanban views
Adding QWeb dynamic content
Creating business reports
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9: EXTERNAL API – INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SYSTEMS
Setting up a Python client
Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC
Writing a Notes desktop application
Introducing the ERPpeek client
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10: DEPLOYMENT CHECKLIST – GOING LIVE
Installing Odoo
Using a reverse proxy
Server and module updates
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