This document provides an overview of the Odoo open source ERP software. It discusses what Odoo is, why use it, installation instructions, module development including directory structure and the manifest file, common ORM methods like search, create and write, and links to a live Odoo project playground. The original authors were Fabien Pinckaers and it is written in Python, JavaScript, and XML with a PostgreSQL database.

1. Odoo
Hizbul Bahar
Lead Software Engineer, Syncoria

2. What is odoo?
❏ All-in-one management software.
❏ Developers: Odoo S.A., Community
❏ Original authors: Fabien Pinckaers
❏ Stable Release 11.0 / October 4, 2017
❏ OS: Linux, Unix-like, OS X, Windows, iOS, Android
❏ Written in: Python3, JS, XML
❏ Database: Postgresql

3. Why Odoo?
❏ Cost Effective
❏ All-in-one Management Software
❏ Open Source
❏ Implementation & Integration

4. Learning Curve
❏ Functional
❏ Technical

5. Odoo Installation
● Download as zip or clone Odoo 11 community version from github: https://github.com/odoo/odoo
● Open terminal and create Development/Projects/Python directories in your home directory and
extract odoo 11 into Python directory and rename it odoo-dev.
● Go into odoo directory, $ cd Development/Projects/Python/odoo-dev and create vritualenv for the
project $ virtualenv venv -p python3 . Then activate this environment for this project: $ source
venv/bin/activate
● Now install all of the dependencies using: (venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt. This command will
install all of the project dependencies.
● Open odoo.conf from odoo/debian/odoo.conf and put following info:
db_host = 127.0.0.1
db_port = 5432
db_user = postgres
db_password = root
● It is time to run your odoo project. (venv)$ ./odoo-bin -c debian/odoo.conf

6. Module Development
Directory Structure

7. About Manifest File

8. Model

9. Views
❏ Form View
❏ Tree/List View
❏ Search View
❏ Kanban View
❏ Calendar View

10. Common ORM methods
❏ Search
self.search([('is_company', '=', True), ('customer', '=', True)])
res.partner(7, 18, 12, 14, 17, 19, 8, 31, 26, 16, 13, 20, 30, 22, 29, 15, 23, 28,
74)
❏ Create
>>> self.create({'name': "New Name"})
res.partner(78)
❏ Browse
self.browse([7, 18, 12])
res.partner(7, 18, 12)

11. Common ORM methods
❏ Write
self.write({'name': "Newer Name"})

12. Live Project
❏ http://playground.ergov.com/

13. Any Question?

14. Thanks