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• What this book covers
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1. Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment

• Understanding the Odoo ecosystem
• Easy installation of Odoo from source
• Managing Odoo server databases
• Storing the instance configuration in a file
• Activating Odoo developer tools
• Updating the add-on modules list

2. Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances FREE CHAPTER

• Configuring the add-ons path
• Standardizing your instance directory layout
• How to do it…
• How it works…
• Installing and upgrading local add-on modules
• Installing add-on modules from GitHub
• Applying changes to add-ons
• Applying and trying proposed pull requests

3. Chapter 3: Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

• Technical requirements
• What is an Odoo add-on module?
• Creating and installing a new add-on module
• How to do it...
• Completing the add-on module manifest
• Organizing the add-on module file structure
• Adding models
• Adding menu items and views
• Adding access security
• Using the scaffold command to create a module

4. Chapter 4: Application Models

• Technical requirements
• Defining the model representation and order
• Adding data fields to a model
• Using a float field with configurable precision
• Adding a monetary field to a model
• Adding relational fields to a model
• Adding a hierarchy to a model
• Adding constraint validations to a model
• Adding computed fields to a model
• Exposing related fields stored in other models
• Adding dynamic relations using reference fields
• Adding features to a model using inheritance
• Copy model definition using inheritance
• Using delegation inheritance to copy features to another model
• Using abstract models for reusable model features

5. Chapter 5: Basic Server-Side Development

• Technical requirements
• Defining model methods and using API decorators
• Getting ready
• Reporting errors to the user
• Obtaining an empty recordset for a different model
• Creating new records
• Updating values of recordset records
• Searching for records
• Combining recordsets
• Filtering recordsets
• Traversing recordset relations
• Sorting recordsets
• Extending the business logic defined in a model
• Extending write() and create()
• Customizing how records are searched
• Fetching data in groups using read_group()

6. Chapter 6: Managing Module Data

• Technical requirements
• 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

7. Chapter 7: Debugging Modules

• The auto-reload and --dev options
• Producing server logs to help debug methods
• Using the Odoo shell to interactively call methods
• Using the Python debugger to trace method execution
• Understanding the debug mode options

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques

• Technical requirements
• Changing the user that performs an action
• Calling a method with a modified context
• Executing raw SQL queries
• Writing a wizard to guide the user
• See also
• Defining onchange methods
• Calling onchange methods on the server side
• Defining onchange with the compute method
• See also
• Defining a model based on a SQL view
• See also
• Adding custom settings options
• Implementing init hooks

9. Chapter 9: Backend Views

• Technical requirements
• Adding a menu item and window actions
• Having an action open a specific view
• Adding content and widgets to a form view
• Adding buttons to forms
• Passing parameters to forms and actions – context
• Defining filters on record lists – domain
• Defining list views
• Defining search views
• Adding a search filter side panel
• Changing existing views – view inheritance
• Defining document-style forms
• See also
• Dynamic form elements using attrs
• Defining embedded views
• Displaying attachments on the side of the form view
• Defining kanban views
• See also
• Showing kanban cards in columns according to their state
• Defining calendar views
• Defining graph view and pivot view
• Defining the cohort view
• Defining the dashboard view
• Defining the gantt view
• Defining the activity view
• Defining the map view

10. Chapter 10: Security Access

• Technical requirements
• Creating security groups and assigning them to users
• Adding security access to models
• Limiting access to fields in models
• Limiting record access using record rules
• Using security groups to activate features
• Accessing recordsets as a superuser
• Hiding view elements and menus based on groups

11. Chapter 11: Internationalization

• Installing a language and configuring user preferences
• Configuring language-related settings
• Translating texts through the web client user interface
• Exporting translation strings to a file
• Using gettext tools to make translations easier
• Importing translation files into Odoo
• Changing the custom language URL code for a website

12. Chapter 12: Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printing

• Technical requirements
• Managing dynamic record stages
• Managing kanban stages
• Adding a quick create form to a kanban card
• Creating interactive kanban cards
• Adding a progress bar in kanban views
• Creating server actions
• Using Python code server actions
• Using automated actions on time conditions
• Using automated actions on event conditions
• Creating QWeb-based PDF reports
• Managing activities from a kanban card
• Adding a stat button to a form view
• Enabling the archive option for records

13. Chapter 13: Web Server Development

• Technical requirements
• Making a path accessible from the network
• Restricting access to web-accessible paths
• Consuming parameters passed to your handlers
• Modifying an existing handler
• Serving static resources

14. Chapter 14: CMS Website Development

• Managing static assets
• Adding CSS and JavaScript for a website
• Creating or modifying templates – QWeb
• Managing dynamic routes
• Offering static snippets to the user
• Offering dynamic snippets to the user
• Getting input from website users
• Managing SEO options
• Managing sitemaps for the website
• Getting a visitor's country information
• Tracking a marketing campaign
• Managing multiple websites
• Redirecting old URLs
• Publish management for website-related records

15. Chapter 15: Web Client Development

• Technical requirements
• Creating custom widgets
• Using client-side QWeb templates
• Making RPC calls to the server
• Creating a new view
• Debugging your client-side code
• Improving onboarding with tours
• Mobile app JavaScript

16. Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

• Technical requirements
• Creating an OWL component
• Managing user actions in an OWL component
• Making OWL components reactive
• Understanding the OWL component life cycle
• Adding an OWL field to the form view

17. Chapter 17: In-App Purchasing with Odoo

• Technical requirements
• IAP concepts
• Registering an IAP service in Odoo
• Creating an IAP service module
• Authorizing and charging IAP credits
• Creating an IAP client module
• Displaying offers when an account lacks credits

18. Chapter 18: Automated Test Cases

• Technical requirements
• Adding Python test cases
• Running tagged Python test cases
• Setting up Headless Chrome for client-side test cases
• Adding client-side QUnit test cases
• Adding tour test cases
• Running client-side test cases from the UI
• Debugging client-side test cases
• Generating videos/screenshots for failed test cases
• Populating random data for testing

19. Chapter 19: Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh

• Technical requirements
• Exploring some basic concepts of Odoo.sh
• Creating an Odoo.sh account
• Adding and installing custom modules
• Managing branches
• Accessing debugging options
• Getting a backup of your instance
• Checking the status of your builds
• All Odoo.sh options

20. Chapter 20: Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

• Technical requirements
• Logging in to/connecting Odoo with XML-RPC
• Searching/reading records through XML-RPC
• Creating/updating/deleting records through XML-RPC
• Calling methods through XML-RPC
• Logging in to/connecting Odoo with JSON-RPC
• Fetching/searching records through JSON-RPC
• Creating/updating/deleting records through JSON-RPC
• Calling methods through JSON-RPC
• The OCA odoorpc library
• Generating API keys

21. Chapter 21: Performance Optimization

• The prefetching pattern for recordsets
• The in-memory cache – ormcache
• Generating differently sized images
• Accessing grouped data
• Creating or writing multiple records
• Accessing records through database queries
• Profiling Python code

22. Chapter 22: Point of Sale

• Technical requirements
• Adding custom JavaScript/SCSS files
• Adding an action button on the keyboard
• Making RPC calls
• Modifying the Point of Sale screen UI
• Modifying existing business logic
• Modifying customer receipts

23. Chapter 23: Managing Emails in Odoo

• Technical requirements
• Configuring incoming and outgoing email servers
• Managing chatter on documents
• Managing activities on documents
• Sending emails using the Jinja template
• Sending emails using the QWeb template
• Managing the email alias
• Logging user changes in a chatter
• Sending periodic digest emails

24. Chapter 24: Managing the IoT Box

• Technical requirements
• Flashing the IoT Box image for Raspberry Pi
• Connecting the IoT Box with a network
• Adding the IoT Box to Odoo
• Loading drivers and listing connected devices
• Taking input from devices
• Accessing the IoT Box through SSH
• Configuring a point of sale
• Sending PDF reports directly to a printer

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