Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Creating a new Model

Models are the basic components for applications, providing the data structures and storage to be used. Next, we will create the Model for the To-do Items. It will have three fields:

• Description
•  Is done? flag
• Work team partner list

As we have seen earlier, Model definitions are accessed in the Settings app, in the Technical | Database Structure | Models menu.

To create a Model, follow these steps:

1. Visit the Models menu, and click on the upper-left Create button. Fill in the new Model form with these values:

• • Model Description: To-do Item
  • Model: x_todo_item

We should save it before we can properly add new fields to it.

2. So, click on Save and then Edit it again. You can see that a few fields were automatically ...