Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

We will use the scaffold command to create boilerplate code. Follow the given steps to create new a module using the scaffold command:

1. Change the working directory to where we will want our module to be. This can be whatever directory you choose, but it needs to be within an add-on path to be useful. Following the directory choices that we used in the previous recipe, it should be as follows:

$ cd ~/odoo-dev/local-addons

2. Choose a technical name for the new module, and use the scaffold command to create it. For our example, we will choose my_module:

$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo-bin scaffold my_module 

3. Edit the __manifest__.py default module manifest provided and change the relevant values. You will surely want to at least change ...