Chapter 3: Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

Now that we have a development environment and know how to manage Odoo server instances and databases, you can learn how to create Odoo add-on modules.

Our main goal in this chapter is to understand how an add-on module is structured and the typical incremental workflow to add components to it. The various components that are mentioned in the recipe names of this chapter will be covered extensively in subsequent chapters.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating and installing a new add-on module
  • Completing the add-on module manifest
  • Organizing the add-on module file structure
  • Adding models
  • Adding menu items and views
  • Adding access security
  • Using the scaffold command to create a ...

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