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1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER

• Technical requirements
• Introducing the to-do list project
• Understanding basic Odoo concepts
• Using an Odoo SaaS trial database
• Installing Odoo in your workstation
• Enabling the developer tools
• Adding a custom field to a model
• Creating a new model
• Creating menu items and actions
• Configuring access control security
• Creating views
• Summary

3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment

• Technical requirements
• Setting up a host for the Odoo server
• Installing Odoo from source
• Managing Odoo databases
• Configuring the Odoo server options
• Finding and installing additional modules
• Using the server development options
• Odoo commands quick reference
• Summary

4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

• Technical requirements
• Overview of the library project
• Step 1 – Creating a new addon module
• Step 2 – Creating a new application
• Step 3 – Adding automated tests
• Step 4 – Implementing the model layer
• Step 5 – Setting up access security
• Step 6 – Implementing the backend view layer
• Step 7 – Implementing the business logic layer
• Step 8 – Implementing the website UI
• Quick reference
• Summary

5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules

• Technical requirements
• Learning project – extending the Library app
• Adding a new field to an existing model
• Extending models using classic in-place extension
• More model inheritance mechanisms
• Extending views and data
• Extending web pages
• Summary
• Further reading

6. Section 2: Models

7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data

• Technical requirements
• Understanding the external identifier concept
• Exporting and importing CSV data files
• Adding module data
• Using XML data files
• Summary
• Further reading

8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data

• Technical requirements
• Learning project – improving the Library app
• Creating models
• Creating fields
• Relationships between models
• Computed fields
• Model constraints
• Overview of the Odoo base models
• Summary
• Further reading

9. Section 3: Business Logic

10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data

• Technical requirements
• Using the shell command
• The execution environment
• Querying data with recordsets and domains
• Accessing data in recordsets
• Writing to records
• Working with date and time fields
• Working with recordsets
• Transactions and low-level SQL
• Summary
• Further reading

11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

• Technical requirements
• Learning project – the book checkout module
• Exploring ways to trigger business logic
• Understanding ORM method decorators for recordsets
• Exploring useful data model patterns
• Using the ORM built-in methods
• Adding onchange user interface logic
• The message and activity features
• Creating a wizard
• Raising exceptions
• Writing unit tests
• Using log messages
• Learning about the available developer tools
• Summary
• Further reading

12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems

• Technical requirements
• Introducing the learning project – a client app to catalog books
• Setting up Python on the client machine
• Exploring the Odoo external API
• Implementing the client app XML-RPC interface
• Implementing the client app user interface
• Using the OdooRPC library
• Summary
• Further reading

13. Section 4: Views

14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

• Technical requirements
• Adding menu items
• Understanding window actions
• Adding options to the Action context menu
• Exploring the form view structure
• Using fields
• Using buttons
• Adding dynamic view elements
• Exploring list views
• Exploring search views
• Understanding the other available view types
• Summary
• Further reading

15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

• Technical requirements
• Introducing kanban boards
• Designing kanban views
• Designing kanban cards
• Exploring the QWeb template language
• Extending kanban views
• Adding CSS and JavaScript assets
• Summary
• Further reading

16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

• Technical requirements
• Installing wkhtmltopdf
• Creating business reports
• Designing report content
• Creating custom reports
• Further reading

17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

• Technical requirements
• Introducing the library portal learning project
• Creating a frontend web page
• Understanding web controllers
• Adding portal features
• Summary
• Further reading

18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

• Technical requirements
• Understanding the contacts data model
• Understanding the users and companies data model
• Understanding the security-related information repository
• Understanding the database structure models
• Understanding the UI-related information repository
• Understanding the configuration properties and company parameters
• Understanding messaging data models
• Summary

20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

• Technical requirements
• Preparing the host system
• Installing Odoo from source code
• Configuring Odoo
• Setting up Odoo as a system service
• Setting up an Nginx reverse proxy
• Configuring and enforcing HTTPS
• Maintaining the Odoo service and modules
• Summary
• Further reading
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