1. What this book covers
Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, starts with an introduction to the Odoo
ecosystem. Here you will learn how to install and set up Odoo for the development environment.
You will also learn how to activate developer tools.
Chapter 2, Managing Odoo Server Instances, is about installing and upgrading add-ons. It provides
you with useful tips to organize custom add-ons downloaded from GitHub.
Chapter 3, Server Deployment, is about how to install and configure Odoo instances for production
use. This chapter includes the NGINX reverse proxy, SSL configuration, the startup service, and
basic Docker deployment. It also includes the configuration for the CDN of a website.
Chapter 4, Creating Odoo Add-On Modules, explains the structure of the Odoo add-on module and
provides a step-by-step guide to create a simple Odoo module from scratch.
Chapter 5, Application Models, focuses on Odoo model structure, and explains all types of fields
with their attributes. This chapter also includes different ways to inherit and extend existing models.
Chapter 6, Basic Server-Side Development, introduces the API of the Odoo framework, presenting
the usage of CRUD methods and other commonly used methods. This chapter also explains how to
write business logic in Odoo.
Chapter 7, Module Data, shows how to ship built-in data along with your add-on module. It also
explains the basic steps to write migration functions.
Chapter 8, Debugging, provides different strategies for debugging Odoo code. This chapter includes
the usage of developer options and Odoo shell.
Chapter 9, Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques, covers more advanced topics of the
ORM framework. It is useful for developing wizards, SQL views, installation hooks, on-change
methods, and more. This chapter also explains how to execute raw SQLqueries in the database.
Chapter 10, Backend Views, teaches you how to create different UI views and how to invoke the
business logic from the user interface. It covers the all of the usual views, such as the list, form,
kanban, calendar, graph, search, and pivot, as well as newly introduced views, such as cohort and
dashboard. This chapter also includes a recipe for modifying/inheriting existing views.
Chapter 11, Access Security, covers the security aspect of the Odoo framework. It shows how to
control/restrict user access on the models by creating security groups, access control lists, and
record level rules.
Chapter 12, Internationalization, shows how to translate the user interface for your add-on modules,
and provides useful tricks for managing translation files.
Chapter 13, Automation, Workflows, and Printouts, illustrates the different tools and techniques
available in Odoo to implement better business processes. It shows how to use server actions,
automated actions, and time-based scheduled actions. This chapter also includes a recipe for
creating PDF reports for your model.
2. Chapter 14, Web Server Development, covers the core of the Odoo web server. It shows how to
create custom URL routes to serve data on a given URL, and also shows how to control access to
these URLs.
Chapter 15, CMS Website Development, show how to manage a website with Odoo. It also shows
how to create and modify beautiful web pages and QWeb templates. This chapter also includes how
to create dynamic building blocks with options. It includes some dedicated recipes for managing
SEO, user forms, UTM tracking, sitemaps, and fetching visitor location information. This chapter
also highlights the latest concept of a multi-website in Odoo.
Chapter 16, Web Client Development, dives into the JavaScript part of the Odoo. It covers how to
create a new field widget and make RPC calls to the server. This also includes how to create a brand
new view from scratch. You will also learn how to create on-boarding tours.
Chapter 17, In-App Purchasing with Odoo, covers everything related to the latest concept of In-
App Purchasing (IAP) in Odoo. In this chapter, you will learn how to create client and service
modules for IAP. You will also learn how to create an IAP account and draw IAP credits from the
end user.
Chapter 18, Automated Test Cases, covers how to write and execute automated test cases in Odoo,
including server-side, client-side, and tour integration test cases. This chapter also has a recipe to set
up chrome-headless to capture screenshots and videos to see failed client-side test cases.
Chapter 19, Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh, explains Odoo.sh, a PaaS platform for
deploying Odoo instances that cover different aspects of the production, staging, and development
branches. This also explains the different options of the platform.
Chapter 20, Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo, covers different ways to connect Odoo instances
from external applications. This chapter teaches you how to connect and access the data from an
Odoo instance through XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, and the odoorpc library.
Chapter 21, Performance Optimization, explains the different concepts and patterns used to gain
performance improvements in Odoo. This chapter includes the concept of prefetching, ORM-cache,
and profiling the code to detect performance issues.
Chapter 22, Point of Sale, covers customization in a point-of-sale application. This includes
customization of the user interface, adding a new action button, modifying business flow, and
extending customer recipes.
Chapter 23, Manage Emails in Odoo, explains how to manage email and chatter in Odoo. It starts
with configuring mail servers and moves towards the mailing API of the Odoo framework. This
chapter also covers the Jinja2 and QWeb mail templates, chatters on the form view , field logs, and
activities.
Chapter 24, IoT Box, gives you the highlight of the latest hardware of IoT Box. This chapter covers
how to configure, access, and debug IoT Box. It also includes a recipe to integrate IoT Box with
your custom add-ons.
