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Presentation - The Odoo Ecosystem

A short introduction into the ecosystem of Odoo, its communities and how it is developed.

What is Odoo

Open Source ERP and CRM
Business Management Software
Framwork for Business Application

History

Fabien Pinckaers - Odoo Founder & CEO^1.

2005: TinyERP
2008: Rename to OpenERP
2010: 100+ employees
2014: Funding and rename to Odoo (product and company)
2015: Transition to open core model (v9.0)
2020: Release Odoo v14.0

Odoo S.A.

Based in Belgium
Coordinates Odoo development
Offers SaaS (Odoo Cloud) and PaaS (Odoo.sh)
Publishes certificates, learning material and more
Maintains the partner network

OCA

Odoo Community Association[^4]

Nonprofit orgnisation
Promotes the widespread use of Odoo
Coordinates Odoo Open Source community
Maintains OSS Apps

Odoo Overview

Odoo Community Edition

The core of Odoo.

Managed on GitHub: https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Odoo Enterprise Edition

Licensed version of Odoo.

Supported by Odoo S.A.
Enterprise upgrade eligible
Enterprise apps and themes

Private repo on GitHub: https://github.com/odoo/enterprise

Odoo licensing

Odoo coats

Coats for the Odoo core.

Myodoo: https://github.com/equitania/myodoo-docker
OpenHRMS: https://github.com/CybroOdoo/OpenHRMS

Everything is a module

The Odoo business layer consists of various modules. Example: Product Model

__manifest__.py: Module manifest
models/product.py: Model definition
views/product_views.xml: View definition
i18n/de.po: German translation
security/ir.mode.access.csv: Access groups and permissions

Odoo Architecture

Powered by Python and PostgreSQL
Model-View-Controller
API: XML-RPC

Logical Architecture

Odoo's ORM

Object Relation Mapping^2.

Manages models and business logic
Internal registry loads module definitions
Methods to interact with data

Everything is XML

Every view is defined as XML.

Forms, lists, pages, filters, fields, menus, records, ...

Extending Odoo

Odoo can be extended easily

Inherit a model and change business logic
Change XML-structure and update views

Inherit a Model

from odoo import models

class ProductProduct(models.Model):
    _inherit = "product.product"

    _sql_constraints = [
        (
            "default_code_uniq",
            "unique(default_code)",
            "Internal Reference must be unique across the database!",
        )
    ]

Source: OCA Product Attribute - product.py

XPath Edits

<template id="website_product_description.product" inherit_id="website_sale.product">
	<xpath expr="//div[@id='product_details']/div/p" position="replace">
		<p t-field="product.web_description" class="text-muted mt-3" />
	</xpath>
</template>

Source: Mint System Odoo App: Website Product Description - website_sale_product.xml

Odoo Framework

Odoo is a framework for developing business applications [^3].

Access to all Odoo entities
User and access management
Defined views: lists, chart, kanban, gantt, pivot
Security and performance

Example

Certificate Planner

Repo: https://github.com/Mint-System/Certificate-Planner
Manual: https://www.odoo-wiki.org/certificate-planner.html

Demo

https://runbot.odoo.com/

Benutzername: admin
Passwort: admin

Script: Tutorial - Extend the Odoo product model

Links

Helpful resources:

Documentation: https://www.odoo.com/documentation/14.0/
Odoo CI/CD: https://runbot.odoo.com/
GitHub OCA: https://github.com/OCA/
Odoo Connector: https://odoo-connector.com/

References

[^3]: Applikation mit Odoo entwickeln [^4]: https://odoo-community.org/