Developer

• Reference
  • ORM API
    • Recordsets
      • Field access
      • Record cache and prefetching
      • Set operations
      • Other recordset operations
    • Environment
      • Altering the environment
    • Common ORM methods
    • Creating Models
      • Computed fields
        • Related fields
      • onchange: updating UI on the fly
      • Low-level SQL
    • Compatibility between new API and old API
    • Model Reference
    • Method decorators
    • Fields
      • Basic fields
      • Date and Datetime fields
      • Relational fields
    • Inheritance and extension
      • Classical inheritance
      • Extension
      • Delegation
    • Domains
    • Porting from the old API to the new API
      • Automatic bridging of old API methods
  • Data Files
    • Structure
    • Core operations
      • record
      • field
      • delete
      • function
    • Shortcuts
      • menuitem
      • template
      • report
    • CSV data files
  • Actions
    • Bindings
    • Window Actions (ir.actions.act_window)
    • URL Actions (ir.actions.act_url)
    • Server Actions (ir.actions.server)
      • State fields
      • Evaluation context
    • Report Actions (ir.actions.report)
    • Client Actions (ir.actions.client)
    • Automated Actions (ir.cron)
  • Views
    • Common Structure
    • Inheritance
      • View matching
      • View resolution
      • Inheritance specs
    • Lists
    • Forms
      • Structural components
      • Semantic components
    • Graphs
    • Pivots
    • Kanban
    • Calendar
    • Gantt
    • Diagram
    • Dashboard
    • Cohort
    • Activity
    • Search
      • Search defaults
    • QWeb
  • Module Manifests
    • Manifest
  • Command-line interface: odoo-bin
    • Running the server
      • Database
      • Emails
      • Internationalisation
      • Advanced Options
        • Developer features
        • HTTP
        • Logging
        • Multiprocessing
    • Configuration file
    • Shell
    • Scaffolding
    • Cloc
      • Command-line options
      • Processed files
        • With the --database option
        • With the --path option
      • Identifying Extra Modules
      • Error Handling
        • Max file size exceeded
        • Syntax Error
  • Security in Odoo
    • Access Control
    • Record Rules
    • Field Access
  • Testing Odoo
    • Testing Python code
      • Running tests
      • Test selection
        • Invocation
        • Special tags
        • Examples
    • Testing JS code
      • Qunit test suite
      • Writing a test case
    • Integration Testing
  • Web Controllers
    • Controllers
    • API
      • Routing
      • Request
      • Response
  • QWeb
    • Data output
    • Conditionals
    • Loops
    • attributes
    • setting variables
    • calling sub-templates
    • Python
      • Exclusive directives
        • Asset bundles
        • «smart records» fields formatting
      • Debugging
      • Helpers
        • Request-based
        • View-based
    • Javascript
      • Exclusive directives
        • defining templates
        • template inheritance
      • debugging
      • Helpers
      • API
  • Javascript Cheatsheet
    • Creating a new field widget
    • Modifying an existing field widget
    • Modifying a main widget from the interface
    • Creating a new view (from scratch)
    • Customizing an existing view
  • Javascript Reference
    • Overview
    • Web client
      • Single Page Application
      • Overview of web client JS code
    • Assets Management
      • Main bundles
      • Adding files in an asset bundle
      • What to do if a file is not loaded/updated
    • Javascript Module System
      • Defining a module
      • Asynchronous modules
      • Best practices
    • Class System
      • Creating a subclass
      • Inheritance
      • Mixins
      • Patching an existing class
    • Widgets
      • Widget Lifecycle
      • Widget API
      • Inserting a widget in the DOM
      • Widget Guidelines
    • QWeb Template Engine
    • Event system
      • Base Event system
      • Extended Event System
    • Registries
    • Communication between widgets
    • Services
      • Service
      • Service Provider
      • Widget
      • RPCs
    • Notifications
      • Notification system
      • Displaying a notification
    • Systray
      • Adding a new Systray Item
      • Ordering
    • Translation management
    • Session
      • Adding information to the session
    • Views
    • Field Widgets
      • AbstractField
      • Decorations
      • Non relational fields
      • Relational fields
    • Client actions
      • Adding a client action
      • Using the control panel mixin
  • Translating Modules
    • Exporting translatable term
    • Implicit exports
    • Explicit exports
      • Variables
      • Blocks
      • Plural
      • Read vs Run Time
  • QWeb Reports
    • Report
    • Report template
      • Minimal viable template
      • Translatable Templates
      • Barcodes
      • Useful Remarks
    • Paper Format
    • Custom Reports
    • Custom fonts
    • Reports are web pages
  • Mixins and Useful Classes
    • Messaging features
      • Messaging integration
        • Basic messaging system
        • Logging changes
        • Subtypes
        • Customizing notifications
        • Overriding defaults
      • Mail alias
        • Aliases vs. Incoming Mail Gateway
        • Alias support integration
      • Activities tracking
    • Website features
      • Visitor tracking
      • Website visibility
      • Website metadata
    • Others
      • Customer Rating
        • Adding rating on your model
        • Send rating requests by e-mail
  • Odoo Guidelines
    • Module structure
      • Directories
      • File naming
    • XML files
      • Format
      • XML IDs and naming
        • Security, View and Action
        • Inheriting XML
    • Python
      • PEP8 options
      • Imports
      • Idiomatics of Programming (Python)
      • Programming in Odoo
        • Make your method work in batch
        • Propagate the context
        • Do not bypass the ORM
        • No SQL injections, please !
        • Think extendable
        • Never commit the transaction
        • Use translation method correctly
      • Symbols and Conventions
    • Javascript and CSS
      • Static files organization
      • Javascript coding guidelines
      • CSS coding guidelines
    • Git
      • Configure your git
      • Commit message structure
      • Tag and module name
      • Commit message header
      • Commit message full description
  • Mobile JavaScript
    • Introduction
    • How does it work?
    • How to use it?
      • Methods
        • Show Toast in device
        • Vibrating device
        • Show snackbar with action
        • Showing notification
        • Create contact in device
        • Scanning barcodes
        • Switching account in device
  • Internet of Things
    • Detect Devices
      • Driver
    • Communicate With Devices
      • Actions
      • Longpolling
• Web Services
  • External API
    • Connection
      • Configuration
        • demo
      • Logging in
    • Calling methods
      • List records
        • Pagination
      • Count records
      • Read records
      • Listing record fields
      • Search and read
      • Create records
      • Update records
      • Delete records
      • Inspection and introspection
        • ir.model
        • ir.model.fields
  • In-App Purchase
    • Overview
    • Building your service
      • Register the service on Odoo
      • Packs
      • Odoo App
      • Service
    • JSON-RPC2 Transaction API
      • Authorize
      • Capture
      • Cancel
      • Types
      • Test the API
    • Odoo Helpers
      • Charging
      • Authorize
      • Cancel
      • Capture
  • Creating a Localization
    • Building a localization module
    • Configuring my own Chart of Accounts?
      • Adding a new account to my Chart of Accounts
      • Adding a new tax to my Chart of Accounts
      • Adding a new fiscal position to my Chart of Accounts
      • Adding the properties to my Chart of Accounts
    • How to create a new bank operation model?
    • How to create a new dynamic report?
• Tutorials
  • Theme Tutorial
    • An introduction for web designers
      • From common CMS to Odoo
      • Odoo default theme structure
    • Thinking «modular»
      • Odoo’s XML files, an overview
    • Create a theme module
      • Edit __manifest__.py
      • Installing your theme
      • Update your theme
    • Structure of an Odoo page
    • Add Styles
      • Introduction
      • Advanced tips for styling
    • Extend Odoo Layout
    • Create a specific page layout
    • Create Snippets
    • Snippet options
      • Options group properties
      • Default option methods
      • Javascript Options
    • Editing Reference Guide
      • Layout
      • Media
    • SEO best practice
      • Facilitate content insertion
      • Page segmentation
      • Describe your page
        • Define keywords
        • Define a title and a description
  • Building a Website
    • Creating a basic module
    • A demonstration module
    • To the browser
    • Templates
    • Storing data in Odoo
      • Defining the data model
      • Demonstration data
      • Accessing the data
    • Website support
    • URLs and routing
    • Field editing
    • Administration and ERP integration
      • A brief and incomplete introduction to the Odoo administration
      • Editing in the Odoo administration
      • Relations between models
      • Discussions and notifications
      • Selling courses
      • Altering existing views
  • Building a Module
    • Start/Stop the Odoo server
    • Build an Odoo module
      • Composition of a module
      • Module structure
      • Object-Relational Mapping
      • Model fields
        • Common Attributes
        • Simple fields
        • Reserved fields
        • Special fields
      • Data files
      • Actions and Menus
    • Basic views
      • Generic view declaration
      • Tree views
      • Form views
      • Search views
    • Relations between models
      • Relational fields
    • Inheritance
      • Model inheritance
      • View inheritance
        • Domains
    • Computed fields and default values
      • Dependencies
      • Default values
    • Onchange
    • Model constraints
    • Advanced Views
      • Tree views
      • Calendars
      • Search views
      • Gantt
      • Graph views
      • Kanban
    • Security
      • Group-based access control mechanisms
      • Access rights
      • Record rules
    • Wizards
      • Launching wizards
    • Internationalization
    • Reporting
      • Printed reports
      • Dashboards
    • WebServices
      • XML-RPC Library
      • JSON-RPC Library
  • Customizing the web client
    • A Simple Module
    • Odoo JavaScript Module
    • Classes
    • Widgets Basics
      • Your First Widget
      • Display Content
      • Widget Parents and Children
      • Destroying Widgets
    • The QWeb Template Engine
      • Using QWeb
        • QWeb Context
        • Template Declaration
        • Escaping
        • Outputting HTML
        • Conditionals
        • Iteration
        • Defining attributes
        • Calling other templates
        • To Learn More About QWeb
        • Exercise
    • Widget Helpers
      • Widget’s jQuery Selector
      • Easier DOM Events Binding
    • Widget Events and Properties
      • Events
      • Properties
      • Exercise
    • Modify existing widgets and classes
    • Translations
    • Communication with the Odoo Server
      • Contacting Models
      • CompoundContext
      • Queries
    • Exercises
    • Existing web components
      • The Action Manager
        • Using the Action Manager
      • Client Actions
      • Architecture of the Views
        • The View Manager
        • The Views
      • The Form View Fields
        • Creating a New Type of Field
          • Simple Read-Only Field
          • Read-Write Field
      • The Form View Custom Widgets
  • Profiling Odoo code
    • Graph a method
    • Log a method
    • Dump stack
    • Tracing code execution
      • Install pyflame and flamegraph
      • Record executed code