Module Structure in Odoo 15
- 1. Module Structure in Odoo 15 www.cybrosys.com
- 2. INTRODUCTION In odoo a module comprises with different components such as models, views, security etc… In this slide describes the module structure
- 3. There are mainly four files required for creating a new module (.py or .xml can be excluded as per the need). The main four files are.
- 4. In the __init__.py file, we have to import all the python files that we are going to use. We have a python file called model.py in our module. The first thing we have to do is, import the model.py in the __init__.py file. __init__.py
- 5. In the __manifest__.py, We have to mention the module name, the author name, version, description, company, category, etc. __manifest__.py
- 6. name - Name of the record description - Brief description of the module version- Specify the version of the module license - Specify the distribution license of the module author - Author name of the module website - Website URL of the module author category - Specify the category name depends - Specifies a list of modules which install first before installing the module data - List of the data files which are always installed or updated with the module demo - List of the data files which are installed or updated in active demonstration mode
- 7. Models Here we can declared the business objects. It also contains an ‘__init__.py’ and ‘models.py’ file. ‘__init__.py’ file which loads the ‘models.py’ file. Here we can add more functionality and new features to our business.
- 8. ● The view directory contains .xml files. ● To display fields, buttons, or view of any model we use XML. ● We have different types of views in Odoo like form view, tree view, kanban view, etc. Templates are also .xml files. We use a template to create web pages and QWEB reports . Views
- 10. Controllers The controller directory also contains .py files. In Odoo controller is a python class that is derived from the base class. Controllers are used to creating APIs, requests like GET and POST and to connect external applications like PHP, Android, and iOS using XML-RPC. Static Static directory is not available in your newly created module, you can create this one manually. This directory contains two sub-directories. 1. Description 2. Src
- 11. Description Description directory contains the icons banners and index.html files Src Src contains all our images, js and CSS files scss - add one or more scss files for apply style css - add one or more css files for apply style img - add images which are used in the module js - contains one or more js files
- 12. Security Security folder contains only one CSV file named ir.model.access.csv. This folder has another file to creating record rules (.xml file). ir.model.access.csv - giving access control or permission to users for particular model security.xml - used to create record rules Data Module data declared via data files, XML field with <record> element
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