Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Exporting data

Data exporting is a standard feature that's available in any list view. To use it, we must first pick the rows to export by selecting the corresponding checkboxes, on the far left, and then selecting the Export option from the Action button at the top of the list.

First, we should add a couple of Odoo books to the Library app, with their publishers and authors. For the following example, we created Odoo Development Essentials 11 and Odoo 11 Development Cookbook.

We also need to have the Contacts app installed so that we can see a Partner list view and are able to export those records from there. Notice that the default view is Kanban with the contact cards, so you need to switch to the list view:

We can also tick the checkbox ...