How to Change the Priority of an Existing View In the post The importance of correctly setting priority on inherited views we have already discussed the importance of the priority field in the inherited views and why it needs to have the right v... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical Dec 4, 2023
The Technical Menu in Odoo The technical menu can be found on the settings page and it is visible only in developer mode. The menu contains more than 16 sections, some of which are visible only if a particular application is in... Functional Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical Nov 13, 2023 Posts
The Importance of Correctly Setting Priority on Inherited Views The sequence of loading the views in Odoo is critical in the inheritance mechanism. The changes in the views are always applied following their order by priority and ID . This means the views with ... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical Oct 30, 2023
How to Create a New QWeb Template Using an Existing One as a Base When creating a new QWeb template in Odoo that is very similar to an existing one, which still needs to be left unchanged, there is no need to rewrite the whole code from the existing template. Instea... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical Sep 4, 2023
How to Generate a Configuration File in Odoo After installing a new instance of Odoo, in most of the cases would be needed to generate a new configuration file. That can be done with the following command line: python odoo/odoo-bin -c path-to-co... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical May 18, 2023
How to Upgrade All Installed Modules in Odoo In case we need to upgrade all installed modules in an Odoo instance, that can be done directly from the command line using the following command for Linux systems: python odoo/odoo-bin -c < path-to-c... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical May 18, 2023 Tips
How to Check if a User Belongs to a Particular Group The method has_group in the model res.users is helpful for checking if a user belongs to a specific group. For example, if we need to check if a user is a salesman in the system, the code should l... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical May 17, 2023 Tips
How to Index a Field in Odoo It is a good practice to create an index for the most searchable fields in the model. In that way, the database search performance can be significantly increased. However, should be careful not to add... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical May 16, 2023 Tips
How to Create a Model in Odoo Without a Table in the Database There are cases when is needed to have a model that will not be represented by a table in the database. By default, Odoo creates a table for every Model and TransientModel , but, there is option ... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical May 16, 2023 Tips
How to Show the Total of a Numeric Column in a List View In case the total of a numeric column needs to be shown at the bottom of a list view, would be needed to include the attribute sum in the field’s XML definition. For example, if amount field needs t... Odoo 17 Odoo 18 Technical Apr 8, 2023 Tips